4 judgment rules are proposed as possible steps in a developmental hierarchy of judgments
of covariation between events. A set of covariation problems were structured so that the …

As it has been documented that young children have access to a variety of causal rules, a
theoretical model was proposed to account for how causal rules are selected. 3 of the rule …

Four-to seven-year-old children observed a simple physical effect which could be attributed
to either a consistent but noncontiguous covariate or a contiguous but inconsistent covariate …

Some models of cognitive development postulate qualitative change in the fundamental
nature of mental structure, whereas others stress more invariant constraints on the form of …

This article considers a set of well‐researched default assumptions that people make in
reasoning about complex causality and argues that, in part, they result from the forms of …

College students and college-bound ninth and sixth graders read several story problems in
which a problem solver tried to find out whether a target factor was causally related to an …

Una de las tareas más desafiantes que afrontan todos los clínicos (psicólogos, psiquiatras,
enfermeros y demás trabajadores de la salud mental) es la de diseñar el mejor plan de …

Metz criticizes “developmentally based” science curricula as inappropriately constraining
science instruction to activities that bear little resemblance to authentic scientific inquiry …

Evidence for the development of principles guiding causal inferences was critically
reviewed. The principles examined included:(1) the logical requirements suggested by …

Studies on members of the crow family using the “Aesop's Fable” paradigm have revealed
remarkable abilities in these birds, and suggested a mechanism by which associative …