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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
