Results are discussed in terms of their implications for accounts of category naturalness. However, justifications for responses were different in the two cases. Justifications for laws involved reference to physical limitations or explicit statements of impossibility. Two follow-up studies assessed understanding of the role of mental states in producing conformity. However, it is not clear whether these children further appreciate the necessity of physical causes on the one hand and the arbitrary, freely-chosen, nature of intentions on the other.
Children recognize distinct domains of value.
This chapter argues that young children also recognize distinct domains of truth. Both value and truth judgments may be differentiated by age six or seven. However, research suggests that this parallel may not be present during the preschool years. This chapter describes the mechanism approach to the study of causal reasoning. We will first offer a characterization of the central issues in human causal reasoning, and will discuss how the mechanism approach addresses these issues.