Are Causal Structure and Intervention Judgments Inextricably Linked? A Developmental Study

Autor/inn/en	Frosch, Caren A.; McCormack, Teresa; Lagnado, David A.; Burns, Patrick
Titel	Are Causal Structure and Intervention Judgments Inextricably Linked? A Developmental Study
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 36 (2012) 2, S.261-285 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01208.x
Schlagwörter	Bayesian Statistics; Intervention; Inferences; Attribution Theory; Decision Making; Learning Processes; Child Development; Children; Young Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inference; Inferenz; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Kindesentwicklung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	The application of the formal framework of causal Bayesian Networks to children's causal learning provides the motivation to examine the link between judgments about the causal structure of a system, and the ability to make inferences about interventions on components of the system. Three experiments examined whether children are able to make correct inferences about interventions on different causal structures. The first two experiments examined whether children's causal structure and intervention judgments were consistent with one another. In Experiment 1, children aged between 4 and 8 years made causal structure judgments on a three-component causal system followed by counterfactual intervention judgments. In Experiment 2, children's causal structure judgments were followed by intervention judgments phrased as future hypotheticals. In Experiment 3, we explicitly told children what the correct causal structure was and asked them to make intervention judgments. The results of the three experiments suggest that the representations that support causal structure judgments do not easily support simple judgments about interventions in children. We discuss our findings in light of strong interventionist claims that the two types of judgments should be closely linked. (Contains 8 tables, 1 figure and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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