Can Being Scared Cause Tummy Aches? Naive Theories, Ambiguous Evidence, and Preschoolers' Causal Inferences

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1124-1139

  Schulz, Laura E ^a   Bonawitz, Elizabeth Baraff ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguous evidence; Bayesian models; domain general and domain specific causal learning; naive theories; psychosomatic causes

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34548816158     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1124     Document Type: Article

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