Preschool children learn about causal structure from conditional interventions.

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Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms and the theory theory (2012, unknown): “In fact, a number of experiments suggest that, at least by age 4, children can use information about the interventions of others in sophisticated ways to learn new causal relationships (e.g., Buchsbaum, Gopnik, & Griffiths, 2011; Gopnik et al., 2004; Schulz et al., 2007).”
On the nature and origin of intuitive theories : learning, physics and psychology (2015, background): “– Alan Turing principles which are present early on, across cultures, and shared with non-human animals [168, 169, 5, 194, 34, 128, 155, 4, 24, 27].”
Playgol: learning programs through play (2019, background): “Children learn though play [Schulz et al. , 2007; Sim and Xu, 2017; Sim et al. , 2017].”
Where science starts: spontaneous experiments in preschoolers' exploratory play. (2011, unknown): “Thus despite evidence for the sophistication of children’s causal reasoning, previous work falls short of suggesting that children design interventions that respect principles of experimental design: children might both learn from informative evidence (Gopnik et al., 2001; Schulz & Gopnik, 2004; Sch”