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Imagination Is Only As Rational As The Purpose To Which It Is Put, Andrew Shtulman
Imagination Is Only As Rational As The Purpose To Which It Is Put, Andrew Shtulman
Andrew Shtulman
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Improbable Or Impossible? How Children Reason About The Possibility Of Extraordinary Events, Andrew Shtulman, Susan Carey
Improbable Or Impossible? How Children Reason About The Possibility Of Extraordinary Events, Andrew Shtulman, Susan Carey
Andrew Shtulman
The present study investigated the development of possibility-judgment strategies between the ages of 4 and 8. In Experiment 1, 48 children and 16 adults were asked whether a variety of extraordinary events could or could not occur in real life. Although children of all ages denied the possibility of events that adults also judged impossible, children frequently denied the possibility of events that adults judged improbable but not impossible. Three additional experiments varied the manner in which possibility judgments were elicited and confirmed the robustness of preschoolers' tendency to judge improbable events impossible. Overall, it is argued that children initially …