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Walker, Caren M; Bridgers, Sophie; Gopnik, Alison. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2016 BASE Show details 4 The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts. Walker, Caren M; Bridgers, Sophie; Gopnik, Alison. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2016 BASE Show details 5 The origins and development of our conception of free will Gopnik, Alison; Kushnir, Tamar In: Surrounding free will (Oxford, 2015), p. 4-24 MPI für Psycholinguistik Show details 6 Ensemble perception of size in 4-5-year-old children. Sweeny, Timothy D; Wurnitsch, Nicole; Gopnik, Alison... In: Developmental science, vol 18, iss 4 (2015) BASE Show details 7 Learning by thinking and the development of abstract reasoning Walker, Caren Michelle. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2015 Abstract: As adults, we have coherent, abstract, and highly structured causal representations of the world. We also learn those representations, as children, from the fragmented, concrete and particular evidence of our senses. How do young children learn so much about the world so quickly and accurately? One classic answer points to the similarities between children’s learning and scientific learning. In particular, researchers have proposed that children, like scientists, implicitly formulate hypotheses about the world and then use evidence to test and rationally revise those hypotheses. In testing these claims, the vast majority of research in this area has investigated children’s developing abilities to draw causal inferences from observed data. However, we know much less about the human ability to build abstract knowledge that extends beyond their observations, simply by thinking. In the current dissertation, I examine a suite of activities that involve learning by thinking in the causal domain, and consider how these activities impose unique, top-down constraints on the processes underlying causal learning and inductive inference. First, in chapter 1, I situate this work within the theoretical context of rational constructivism that has recently emerged in the field of cognitive development. Chapter 2 then presents a series of experiments demonstrating very young children’s ability to infer the abstract relations “same” and “different” in a novel causal reasoning task. I conclude this chapter by considering the implications of these findings for our understanding of the nature of relational and causal reasoning, and their evolutionary origins. Chapter 3 extends this paradigm to describe a surprising developmental pattern: younger children outperform older children in inferring these abstract relations. I provide evidence that this failure may be explained by appealing to the role of learned biases in constraining causal judgments. The second part of this chapter explores how prompts to explain during learning facilitate children’s ability to override a preference to attend to object properties, and instead reason about abstract relations. Chapter 4 presents empirical findings further examining the particular effects of explanation on the mechanisms underlying causal inference in preschool-aged children. In particular, results demonstrate that explanation prompts children to ignore salient superficial properties and consider inductively rich properties that are likely to generalize to novel cases. Finally, in Chapter 5, I discuss the implications for this body of work as a whole, and suggest a variety of future directions. Taken together, this research contributes to our understanding of the cognitive processes that influence early learning and inference in early childhood. Keyword: Abstract Reasoning; Analogy; Cognitive Development; Cognitive psychology; Developmental psychology; Explanation; Learning; Representation URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45d416b8 BASE Hide details 8 Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties Walker, Caren M.; Lombrozo, Tania; Legare, Cristine H.... In: Cognition. - Amsterdam [u.a] : Elsevier 133 (2014) 2, 343-357 OLC Linguistik Show details 9 When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: Developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships Lucas, Christopher G.; Bridgers, Sophie; Griffiths, Thomas L.... In: Cognition. - Amsterdam [u.a] : Elsevier 131 (2014) 2, 284-299 OLC Linguistik Show details 10 Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants Walker, Caren M.; Hubachek, Samantha; Gopnik, Alison In: Walker, Caren M.; Hubachek, Samantha; & Gopnik, Alison. (2014). Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 36(36). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5v53n7n8 (2014) BASE Show details 11 Toddlers infer higher-order relational principles in causal learning. Walker, Caren M; Gopnik, Alison In: Psychological science, vol 25, iss 1 (2014) BASE Show details 12 Rational variability in children's causal inferences: the sampling hypothesis Gopnik, Alison; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Denison, Stephanie... In: Cognition. - Amsterdam [u.a] : Elsevier 126 (2013) 2, 285-300 BLLDB OLC Linguistik Show details 13 Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters Weisberg, Deena S.; Gopnik, Alison In: Cognitive science. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 37 (2013) 7, 1368-1381 OLC Linguistik Show details 14 Bayes and blickets: effects of knowledge on causal induction in children and adults Griffiths, Thomas L.; Sobel, David; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.... In: Cognitive science. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 35 (2011) 8, 1407-1455 BLLDB OLC Linguistik Show details 15 A unified account of abstract structure and conceptual change: Probabilistic models and early learning mechanisms Gopnik, Alison; Carey, Susan In: Behavioral and brain sciences. - New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 34 (2011) 3, 129-130 OLC Linguistik Show details 16 Précis of "The Origin of Concepts" : [including open peer commentary and author's response] Carey, Susan; Gopnik, Alison (Komm.); Mandelbaum, Eric (Komm.)... In: Behavioral and brain sciences. - New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 34 (2011) 3, 113-167 BLLDB OLC Linguistik Show details 17 Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences Gopnik, Alison; Saxe, Rebecca; Schulz, Laura E.... In: Cognition. - Amsterdam [u.a] : Elsevier 115 (2010) 1, 104-117 BLLDB OLC Linguistik Show details 18 Inferring hidden causal structure Lucas, Christopher G.; Kushnir, Tamar; Schulz, Laura E.... In: Cognitive science. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 34 (2010) 1, 148-160 BLLDB OLC Linguistik Show details 19 How babies think : even the youngest children know, experience and learn far more than scientists ever thought possible Gopnik, Alison In: Scientific American. - New York, NY : Scientific American 303 (2010) 1, 56-61 BLLDB Show details 20 Kleinkinder begreifen mehr : Kleinkinder, sogar schon Babys, ergründen die Welt durchaus in der Art von Wissenschaftlern, zum Beispiel schließen sie aus beobachteten Häufigkeiten auf Zusammenhänge Gopnik, Alison In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft. - Heidelberg : Spektrum-der-Wiss.-Verl.-Ges. (2010) 10, 68-73 BLLDB Show details Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

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