Shrikanth Muralidharan, Pramila Mallaiah, Sakharam Garale, Arunkumar Acharya
Oral Health Literacy and Oral Health Knowledge among 2,263 First-time Pregnant Urban Women: A Cross-sectional Questionnaire Study
The journal of contemporary dental practice
according higher order reasoning account inferential reasoning processes underpin widely observed cue competition effect blocking causal learning inference required blocking described modus tollens p q q therefore p young children known difficulties type inference research adults suggests inference easier participants think counterfactually study 100 children 51 fiveyearolds 49 six sevenyearolds assigned two types pretraining groups counterfactual group observed demonstrations cues paired outcomes answered questions outcome would causal status cues different whereas factual group answered factual questions demonstrations children completed causal learning task counterfactual pretraining enhanced levels blocking well modus tollens reasoning younger children findings provide new evidence important role inferential reasoning causal learning