Iraj Zareban, Mahmood Karimy, Marzieh Araban, Daniel Delaney
Oral self-care behavior and its influencing factors in a sample of school children from Central Iran
Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique
previous research suggested preschoolers possess cognitive system allows construct abstract coherent representation causal relations among events system lets children reason retrospectively observe ambiguous data rational manner eg sobel j b tenenbaum gopnik 2004 however little evidence demonstrates whether younger children possess similar inferential abilities experiment 1 authors extended previous findings older children examine 19 24montholds causal inferences twentyfourmontholds inferences similar preschoolers younger children lacked ability make retrospective causal inferences perhaps performance limitations experiment 2 authors designed eyetracking paradigm test younger participants eliminated various manual search demands eightmontholds anticipatory eye movements response retrospective data revealed inferences similar 24montholds experiment 1 preschoolers previous research data discussed terms associative reasoning causal inference