Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers

Children’s causal inferences from indire

Children’s causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers

✍ David M Sobel; Joshua B Tenenbaum; Alison Gopnik 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) 🌐 English ⚖ 189 KB

Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children recognizing relevant associations among events, and responding based on those associations. To examine this claim, in Experi