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Frankenhuis, Willem E.; Del Giudice, Marco – Developmental Psychology, 2012
This article discusses 3 ways in which adaptive developmental mechanisms may produce maladaptive outcomes. First, natural selection may favor risky strategies that enhance fitness on average but which have detrimental consequences for a subset of individuals. Second, mismatch may result when organisms experience environmental change during…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Evolution, Developmental Psychology, Cues
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Schulz, Laura E.; Gopnik, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Five studies investigated (a) children's ability to use the dependent and independent probabilities of events to make causal inferences and (b) the interaction between such inferences and domain-specific knowledge. In Experiment 1, preschoolers used patterns of dependence and independence to make accurate causal inferences in the domains of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Biology, Cognitive Style, Probability