dc.contributor.author | Muentener, Paul Jason | |
dc.contributor.author | Friel, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Schulz, Laura E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-14T16:04:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-14T16:04:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-08 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2012-04 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74640 | |
dc.description.abstract | Adults recognize that if event A predicts event B, intervening on A might generate B. Research suggests that young children have difficulty making this inference unless the events are initiated by goal-directed actions. The current study tested the domain-generality and development of this phenomenon. Replicating previous work, when the events involved a physical outcome, toddlers (mean: 24 months) failed to generalize the outcome of spontaneously occurring predictive events to their own interventions; toddlers did generalize from prediction to intervention when the events involved a psychological outcome. We discuss these findings as they bear on the development of causal concepts. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Templeton Foundation (Grant 12667) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | James S. McDonnell Foundation | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.). (CAREER Award 0744213) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042495 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ | en_US |
dc.source | PLoS | en_US |
dc.title | Giving the Giggles: Prediction, Intervention, and Young Children's Representation of Psychological Events | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Muentener, Paul, Daniel Friel, and Laura Schulz. “Giving the Giggles: Prediction, Intervention, and Young Children’s Representation of Psychological Events.” Ed. Tiziana Zalla. PLoS ONE 7.8 (2012). | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Muentener, Paul Jason | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Friel, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Schulz, Laura E. | |
dc.relation.journal | PLoS ONE | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Muentener, Paul; Friel, Daniel; Schulz, Laura | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |