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Blocking Is Sensitive to Causal Structure in 4-Year-Old and 8-Year-Old Children

Published:2005-01 Issue:4 Volume:52 Page:264-271
ISSN:1618-3169
Container-title:Experimental Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:Experimental Psychology

Author:

Beckers Tom¹,Van den Broeck Uschi¹,Renne Marij¹,Vandorpe Stefaan²,De Houwer Jan²,Eelen Paul¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium

2. Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium

Abstract

Abstract. In a contingency learning task, 4-year-old and 8-year-old children had to predict the outcome displayed on the back of a card on the basis of cues presented on the front. The task was embedded in either a causal or a merely predictive scenario. Within this task, either a forward blocking or a backward blocking procedure was implemented. Blocking occurred in the causal but not in the predictive scenario. Moreover, blocking was affected by the scenario to the same extent in both age groups. The pattern of results was similar for forward and backward blocking. These results suggest that even young children are sensitive to the causal structure of a contingency learning task and that the occurrence of blocking in such a task defies an explanation in terms of associative learning theory.

Publisher

Hogrefe Publishing Group

Subject

General Psychology,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,General Medicine

Link

https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/pdf/10.1027/1618-3169.52.4.264

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