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    "title": "\"Dancing on the ceiling\": The role of different forms of thinking on retrospective reevaluation in children",
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    "abstract": "An open question in the developmental causal learning literature concerns how children's beliefs about causal systems impact their inferences. This study investigated how 4- and 5-year-olds' causal beliefs related to their “backwards blocking” abilities, as well as whether associative learning or Bayesian inference better explained their judgements. Children were taught either that two causes together produced a larger effect than that produced by each individually or that they produced the same size effect as that produced by either one. A third group received no training. Results indicated that 4-year-olds engaged in backwards blocking only after additivity training and that their inferences mainly matched an associative model. In contrast, 5-year-olds consistently engaged in backwards blocking and produced responses that largely matched a Bayesian model. These findings suggest that the effect of children's beliefs about causal systems on their inferences undergoes a developmental progression and implicate the role of multiple cognitive mechanisms.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Cognitive development; Development; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Neural Networks"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Rebecca",
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            "last_name": "Beaton",
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            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Deon",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Benton",
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            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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