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Children's Understanding of Transformations in Objects


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1 Department of Philosophy, Kayani University, Kalyani, Nadia, India
     

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Two experiments were performed on 3 and 4 years old children, where they were tested in scenarios that involved simple object transformations. The result shows that both 3 and 4 years old children performed well in this task. The results show that children of both age groups understood the task but performance of 4-years-old was remarkably better than the 3-years-old.

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Causal Inference, Transformations in Objects, Reciprocal Transformation, Children.
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Authors

Payal Pakrashi
Department of Philosophy, Kayani University, Kalyani, Nadia, India

Abstract


Two experiments were performed on 3 and 4 years old children, where they were tested in scenarios that involved simple object transformations. The result shows that both 3 and 4 years old children performed well in this task. The results show that children of both age groups understood the task but performance of 4-years-old was remarkably better than the 3-years-old.

Keywords


Causal Inference, Transformations in Objects, Reciprocal Transformation, Children.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2017%2Fv31%2Fi6%2F168241