Tamar Kushnir

Summary

Affiliation: Cornell University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi "Who can help me fix this toy?" The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, G62B Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
    Dev Psychol 49:446-53. 2013
  2. ncbi Developing a concept of choice
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Adv Child Dev Behav 43:193-218. 2012
  3. ncbi A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Dev Psychol 45:597-603. 2009
  4. ncbi Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other people
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University, G62B MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Psychol Sci 21:1134-40. 2010
  5. ncbi Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
    Dev Psychol 43:186-96. 2007
  6. ncbi A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets
    Alison Gopnik
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Psychol Rev 111:3-32. 2004

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi "Who can help me fix this toy?" The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, G62B Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
    Dev Psychol 49:446-53. 2013
    ..Thus, preschoolers take demonstrated causal ability as a sign of specialized causal knowledge, which suggests a basis for developing ideas about causal expertise...
  2. ncbi Developing a concept of choice
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Adv Child Dev Behav 43:193-218. 2012
    ..The chapter concludes by suggesting avenues for future research--to better characterize conceptual changes in beliefs about choice, and to understand how such beliefs arise from children's everyday experiences...
  3. ncbi A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Dev Psychol 45:597-603. 2009
    ..These results demonstrate that children's own experience of action influences their causal learning, and the findings suggest possible benefits in uncertain and ambiguous everyday learning contexts...
  4. ncbi Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other people
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University, G62B MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Psychol Sci 21:1134-40. 2010
    ..These findings provide an important demonstration of how statistical learning could underpin the rapid acquisition of early psychological knowledge...
  5. ncbi Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions
    Tamar Kushnir
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
    Dev Psychol 43:186-96. 2007
    ..However, children were more likely to make correct inferences when causes were spatially contiguous, particularly when faced with ambiguous evidence...
  6. ncbi A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets
    Alison Gopnik
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Psychol Rev 111:3-32. 2004
    ..Experimental results suggest that 2- to 4-year-old children construct new causal maps and that their learning is consistent with the Bayes net formalism...