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Who can help me fix this toy?” The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information

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ID9796342
AutoresTalma Kushnir (0000-0002-7656-6292, Cornell University, autor de correspondencia), Tamar Kushnir, Christopher Vredenburgh, Lauren A Schneider, Lauren Schneider (0000-0003-4300-3765)
Año2013
Volumen49
Número3
Páginas446-453
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0031649
PMID23339590
OpenAlexW2325720532
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas19

Preschoolers use outcomes of actions to infer causal properties of objects. We asked whether they also use them to infer others' causal abilities and knowledge. In Experiment 1, preschoolers saw 2 informants, 2 tools, and 2 broken toys. One informant (the labeler) knew the names of the tools, but his actions failed to activate the toys. The other (the fixer) was ignorant about the names of the tools, but his actions succeeded in activating the toys. Four-year-olds (and to a lesser extent, 3-year-olds) selectively directed requests for new labels to the labeler and directed requests to fix new broken toys to the fixer. In a second experiment, 4-year-olds also endorsed a fixer's (over a nonfixer's) causal explanations for mechanical failures. They did not, however, ask the fixer about new words (Experiments 1 and 2) or artifact functions (Experiment 1). Thus, preschoolers take demonstrated causal ability as a sign of specialized causal knowledge, which suggests a basis for developing ideas about causal expertise

Artifact (error · Causal reasoning · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Sign (mathematics · Word (group theory · Child and Animal Learning Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology

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