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The Emergence of Children's Causal Explanations and Theories: Evidence From Everyday Conversation by Hickling, Anne K, Wellman, Henry M

“…This research examines the content of explanations that 4 English-speaking children gave or asked for in everyday conversations recorded from 21/2 to 5 years…”
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Seeing is believing: children's explanations of commonplace, magical, and extraordinary transformations by Rosengren, K.S, Hickling, A.K

“…Children's magical explanations and beliefs were investigated in 2 studies. In Study 1, we first asked 4- and 5-year-old children to judge the possibility of…”
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To be or not to be a galaprock: Preschoolers' intuitions about the importance of knowledge and action for pretending by Gottfried, Gail M., Hickling, Anne K., Totten, Leah R., Mkroyan, Alice, Reisz, Amber

“…Can someone pretend to be a galaprock without knowing what a galaprock is? Do children recognize that such knowledge is required for pretending? Three studies…”
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The Mind's "I": Children's Conception of the Mind as an Active Agent by Wellman, Henry M., Hickling, Anne K.

“…1 hypothesis about children's developing conception of the mind is that preschoolers are limited to an understanding that persons have internal, mental…”
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Young Children's Psychological, Physical, and Biological Explanations by Wellman, Henry M, Hickling, Anne K, Schult, Carolyn A

“…Uses results of laboratory and natural language analyses of 2- to 4-year olds' explanations of human behavior to argue for a theory-type view of biological,…”
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How does your garden grow? Early conceptualization of seeds and their place in the plant growth cycle by Hickling, A.K. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.), Gelman, S.A

“…Although an increasing body of research supports the view that preschoolers hold theory-like conceptions in the biological domain, most studies concerned have…”
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UNDERSTANDING PRETENSE AS PRETENSE by Wellman, Henry M., Hickling, Anne K.

“…This commentary on the research reported in this monograph stresses the importance of the analogy between the processes involved in pretense comprehension and…”
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Seeing Is Believing: Children's Explanations of Commonplace, Magical, and Extraordinary Transformations by Rosengren, Karl S., Hickling, Anne K.

“…Children's magical explanations and beliefs were investigated in 2 studies. In Study 1, we first asked 4‐ and 5‐year‐old children to judge the possibility of…”
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Young Children's Understanding of Pretense by Harris, Paul L., Kavanaugh, Robert D., Wellman, Henry M., Hickling, Anne K.

“…Children's understanding of adult pretense was assessed in seven experiments. By the age of 28 months, children are able to understand when an adult refers to…”
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The Mind's "I": Children's Conception of the Mind as an Active Agent by Wellman, Henry M., Hickling, Anne K.

“…1 hypothesis about children's developing conception of the mind is that preschoolers are limited to an understanding that persons have internal, mental…”
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How Does Your Garden Grow? Early Conceptualization of Seeds and Their Place in the Plant Growth Cycle by Hickling, Anne K., Gelman, Susan A.

“…Although an increasing body of research supports the view that preschoolers hold theory‐like conceptions in the biological domain, most studies concerned have…”
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Preschoolers' understanding of others' mental attitudes towards pretend happenings by Hickling, Anne K., Wellman, Henry M., Gottfried, Gail M.

“…One question about early understanding of the mind concerns when young children realize that pretence involves persons' thoughts or mental attitudes. Two…”
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