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Direct linkEngle, Jae; Walker, Caren M. – Child Development, 2021
Often, the evidence we observe is consistent with more than one explanation. How do learners discriminate among candidate causes? The current studies examine whether counterfactuals help 5-year olds (N = 120) select between competing hypotheses and compares the effectiveness of these prompts to a related scaffold. In Experiment 1, counterfactuals…
Descriptors: Young Children, Logical Thinking, Discrimination Learning, Prompting
Baccolo, Elisa; Macchi Cassia, Viola – Child Development, 2020
The ability to discriminate social signals from faces is a fundamental component of human social interactions whose developmental origins are still debated. In this study, 5-year-old (N = 29) and 7-year-old children (N = 31) and adults (N = 34) made perceptual similarity and trustworthiness judgments on a set of female faces varying in level of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emotional Development, Discrimination Learning, Human Body
