Giving the Giggles: Prediction, Intervention, and Young Children's Representation of Psychological Events

Adults recognize that if event A predicts event B, intervening on A might generate B. Research suggests that young children have difficulty making this inference unless the events are initiated by goal-directed actions. The current study tested the domain-generality and development of this phenomeno...

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Main Authors: Muentener, Paul Jason, Friel, Daniel, Schulz, Laura E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74640
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039