Causal Learning Across Culture and Socioeconomic Status.

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0372725 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1467-8624 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00093920 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers
Original Publication: [Chicago, etc.] : Published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development [etc.]

Early Intervention, Educational*/statistics & numerical data ; Poverty*/statistics & numerical data ; Social Class*; Child Development/*physiology ; Learning/*physiology ; Thinking/*physiology; Adult ; Child, Preschool ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Peru ; United States

Extensive research has explored the ability of young children to learn about the causal structure of the world from patterns of evidence. These studies, however, have been conducted with middle-class samples from North America and Europe. In the present study, low-income Peruvian 4- and 5-year-olds and adults, low-income U.S. 4- and 5-year-olds in Head Start programs, and middle-class children from the United States participated in a causal learning task (N = 435). Consistent with previous studies, children learned both specific causal relations and more abstract causal principles across culture and socioeconomic status (SES). The Peruvian children and adults generally performed like middle-class U.S. children and adults, but the low-SES U.S. children showed some differences.
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Date Created: 20170824 Date Completed: 20200323 Latest Revision: 20200323

20240105

10.1111/cdev.12943

28834544