L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Causal Structure, Deductive Reasoning, Orienting Response
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Method: random assignment to control group (all red or blue blocks) or. Experimental group (3 sides wooden, one red or blue) Results: 0% of the control group said wooden, approx 30% of experimental group says wooden. Conclusion: increasing the saliency of the superordinate category can improve class inclusion performance. Method: all children exposed to three different types of syllogisms: random. Assignment to one of two orders >> abc or acb. Conclusions: under certain conditions, even preschoolers can use deductive logic to correctly respond to syllogisms. Why do 3 year-old children fail this task> Infants perceive the causal structure of simple collision events and this perceptual skill may support rapid causal learning without prior knowledge about the actual mechanism. But, what may initially promote early development may later become a children may not realize that mechanism rules over perceptual contiguity. hindrance when perception and mechanism point to different causes. Phase i: both groups habituate to one of two series of events.
