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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2010 May–Jun;81(3):929–944. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01443.x

Table 3a.

Study 1: Percentage of children giving each kind of causal explanation for inconsistent outcomes at least once by age group

Category switch Causal function Causal action
3-year-olds 31% 56% 19%
4-year-olds 56% 69% 6%
5-year-olds 69% 56% 19%