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Samuel Ronfard; Brandon W. Goulding; Jonathan D. Lane – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Unlike adults, young children think that many weird and unlikely events are impossible. Existing theories have argued that this developmental shift is driven primarily by age-related changes in knowledge as well as an increasing ability to reflect on one's modal intuitions. However, this intuition + reflection model fails to explain…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Child Development

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