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Direct linkLegare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2012
Explaining inconsistency may serve as an important mechanism for driving the process of causal learning. But how might this process generate amended beliefs? One way that explaining inconsistency may promote discovery is by guiding exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior. In order to investigate this, a study with young children ranging in age…
Descriptors: Evidence, Young Children, Testing, Beliefs
