Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5762248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Baraff |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonawitz |
| SIGNATURE | BONAWITZ E B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Occam's rattle
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for learning and inference, but little is known about how children generate and select competing explanations. This study investigates whether young children prefer explanations that are simple, where simplicity is quantified as the number of causes invoked in an explanation, and how this preference is reconciled with probability information. Both prescho…
Can being scared cause tummy aches? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence, and preschoolers' causal inferences
Causal learning requires integrating constraints provided by domain-specific theories with domain-general statistical learning. In order to investigate the interaction between these factors, the authors presented preschoolers with stories pitting their existing theories against statistical evidence. Each child heard 2 stories in which 2 candidate causes co-occurred with an effect. Evidence was presented in the form: AB?E; CA?E; AD?E; and so forth…
Serious fun
Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that children are poor at designing informative experiments; children fail to control relevant variables and tend to alter multiple variables simultaneously. Thus, little is known about how children's spontaneous exploration might support accurate causal inferences. Here the author…
Serious fun
Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that children are poor at designing informative experiments; children fail to control relevant variables and tend to alter multiple variables simultaneously. Thus, little is known about how children's spontaneous exploration might support accurate causal inferences. Here the author…
Can being scared cause tummy aches? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence, and preschoolers' causal inferences
Causal learning requires integrating constraints provided by domain-specific theories with domain-general statistical learning. In order to investigate the interaction between these factors, the authors presented preschoolers with stories pitting their existing theories against statistical evidence. Each child heard 2 stories in which 2 candidate causes co-occurred with an effect. Evidence was presented in the form: AB?E; CA?E; AD?E; and so forth…
Occam's rattle
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for learning and inference, but little is known about how children generate and select competing explanations. This study investigates whether young children prefer explanations that are simple, where simplicity is quantified as the number of causes invoked in an explanation, and how this preference is reconciled with probability information. Both prescho…
Can being scared cause tummy aches? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence, and preschoolers' causal inferences
Causal learning requires integrating constraints provided by domain-specific theories with domain-general statistical learning. In order to investigate the interaction between these factors, the authors presented preschoolers with stories pitting their existing theories against statistical evidence. Each child heard 2 stories in which 2 candidate causes co-occurred with an effect. Evidence was presented in the form: AB?E; CA?E; AD?E; and so forth…
Serious fun
Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that children are poor at designing informative experiments; children fail to control relevant variables and tend to alter multiple variables simultaneously. Thus, little is known about how children's spontaneous exploration might support accurate causal inferences. Here the author…
Occam's rattle
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for learning and inference, but little is known about how children generate and select competing explanations. This study investigates whether young children prefer explanations that are simple, where simplicity is quantified as the number of causes invoked in an explanation, and how this preference is reconciled with probability information. Both prescho…
Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (1 work) · Causal inference (1 work) · Causal reasoning (1 work)