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    "pk": 26981,
    "title": "Learning About Causal Systems Through Play",
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    "abstract": "It is commonly believed that children are able to learn through\nplay. Recent studies have found that children are able to learn\ncausal rules through free play (Sim & Xu, in press). One such\nstudy found that children learned how to correctly activate\nmachines, using either a block that was the same shape or the\nsame color as the machine, when given five minutes to play\nwith them. However, would children be able to learn a more\ncomplex causal rule through free play as well and would their\nperformance be comparable to children who were didactically\ntaught the same causal rule? In the current study, we show that\nchildren are able to learn more complex causal rules through\nfree play. We also show that children perform significantly\nbetter when learning these rules through free play or by first\nengaging in free play and then observing, as opposed to solely\nthrough observation.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "free play; causal learning; generalization"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57p4d86w",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zi",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Sim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kuldeep",
            "middle_name": "K.",
            "last_name": "Mahal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Fei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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