Evidence for developmental aspects of fear-targets and anxiety suggests a complex but
stable pattern whereby specific kinds of fears emerge at different periods of development …

Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This
paper discusses recent research demonstrating that useful distinctions may be made among …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

Provides readers with an introduction to the origins and course of behavioral and emotional
problems. A balance of perspectives, including the behavioral, psychodynamic, cognitive …

Three studies investigated whether young children make accurate causal inferences on the
basis of patterns of variation and covariation. Children were presented with a new causal …

Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and
effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that …

In this chapter, we consider children's early understanding of physical, biological, and
psychological phenomena. We ask whether--and if so, when and in what fashion--these …

Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning
underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our …

Three studies examined the co‐existence of natural and supernatural explanations for
illness and disease transmission, from a developmental perspective. The participants (5‐, 7 …

Five studies investigated (a) children's ability to use the dependent and independent
probabilities of events to make causal inferences and (b) the interaction between such …