Psychology
5 years ago

Young children can now identify causally relevant variables with sparse evidence.

Developmental Psychology
Learning what to change: Young children use “difference-making” to identify causally relevant variables.
Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik

Paper Summary

Young children can figure out which variable is important in a new situation by seeing what makes a difference. Even 3 to 5-year-olds can learn this from just a little information. If changing a variable in one way causes something to happen, they think changing it in other ways will cause different things to happen.

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