Table 10. Percentages of children (N = 124) obtaining perfect scores on the flow of liquid task at each level of explanation response.

	Inference score
Causal task	4 (mechanism)	3 (coordinated factors)	2 (uncoordinated factors)	1 (single factor)	0
Sinking	100.0	97.3	52.5	50.0	30.8
Absorption	100.0	92.9	69.2	46.1	21.4
Solution	100.0	94.1	73.3	41.2	15.8