Title: Development of Young Children's Antecedent Counterfactual Reasoning and Its Influencing Factors
Abstract: This study was conducted to explore the development of antecedent counterfactual reasoning of young children from 3 to 5 years of age and the influencing effect of outcome valence and domain knowledge.Verbal protocol and story-telling were used to test 90 participants.The results showed as follows:(1) age had a significant effect on young children's antecedent counterfactual reasoning(2) young children generated more additive counterfactuals than subtractive counterfactuals,but no significant difference between upward and downward counterfactuals.(3) outcome valence had no direct effect but domain knowledge had a significant effect on young children's antecedent counterfactual reasoning,and the interaction was also significant;however,the interaction disappeared when language was controlled.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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