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Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions
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The performance of 93 children aged 3 and 4 years on a battery of different counterfactual tasks was assessed. Three measures: short causal chains, location change counterfactual conditionals, and false syllogisms—but not a fourth, long causal chains—were correlated, even after controlling for age and receptive vocabulary. Children's performance on our counterfactual thinking measure was predicted by receptive vocabulary ability and inhibitory control. The role that domain general executive functions may play in 3- to 4-year olds' counterfactual thinking development is discussed.
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- Authors
- Beck, S. R., Riggs, K. J., & Gorniak, S. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- London Metropolitan University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Beck, Sarah R.
- Venue
- Thinking & Reasoning
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 337-354
- ISSN
- 1354-6783 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0708
- OpenAlex
- W2048089934
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 11.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Thinking & Reasoning (publishedVersion)
- Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (RES-000-22-1683)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Keywords
- counterfactual reasoning, executive function, inhibitory control, young children, causal reasoning, receptive vocabulary, domain-general cognition
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