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Sobel, David M.; Yoachim, Caroline M.; Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Blumenthal, Emily J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Four experiments examined children's inferences about the relation between objects' internal parts and their causal properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds recognized that objects with different internal parts had different causal properties, and those causal properties transferred if the internal part moved to another object. In Experiment 2,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inferences, Concept Formation, Age Differences

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