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Beck, Sarah R., Robinson, Elizabeth J., Carroll, Daniel J. and Apperly, Ian (2006) Children's thinking about counterfactuals and future hypotheticals as possibilities. Child Development, Vol.77 (No.2). pp. 413-426. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00879.x ISSN 0009-3920.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00879.x
Abstract
Two experiments explored whether children's correct answers to counterfactual and future hypothetical questions were based on an understanding of possibilities. Children played a game in which a toy mouse could run down either 1 of 2 slides. Children found it difficult to mark physically both possible outcomes, compared to reporting a single hypothetical future event, "What if next time he goes the other way ..." (Experiment 1: 3-4-year-olds and 4-5-year-olds), or a single counterfactual event, "What if he had gone the other way ...?" (Experiment 2: 3-4-year-olds and 5-6-year-olds). An open counterfactual question, "Could he have gone anywhere else?," which required thinking about the counterfactual as an alternative possibility, was also relatively difficult.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 0009-3920 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2006 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.77 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 413-426 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00879.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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