Volume 43 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Rational Constructivism. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. Chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area. Rational Constructivism discussed in detail.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chapter One -- The Probable and the Possible at 12 Months: Intuitive Reasoning about the Uncertain Future / Nicoló Cesana-Arlotti, Erno Téglás, Luca L. Bonatti -- Chapter Two -- Probabilistic Inference in Human Infants / Stephanie Denison, Fei Xu -- Chapter Three -- Reasoning about Instrumental and Communicative Agency in Human Infancy / György Gergely, Pierre Jacob -- Chapter Four -- Can Rational Models Be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales / Colin R. Dawson, LouAnn Gerken -- Chapter Five -- Learning about Causes from People and about People as Causes: Probabilistic Models and Social Causal Reasoning / Daphna Buchsbaum, Elizabeth Seiver, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik -- Chapter Six -- Rational Randomness: The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler's Causal Learning / E. Bonawitz, A. Gopnik, S. Denison, T.L. Griffiths -- Chapter Seven -- Developing a Concept of Choice / Tamar Kushnir -- Chapter Eight -- When Children Ignore Evidence in Category-Based Induction: Irrational Inferences? / Marjorie Rhodes -- Chapter Nine -- A Number of Options: Rationalist, Constructivist, and Bayesian Insights into the Development of Exact-Number Concepts / Barbara W. Sarnecka, James Negen -- Chapter Ten -- Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts / Laura Schulz -- Chapter Eleven -- Unifying Pedagogical Reasoning and Epistemic Trust / Baxter S. Eaves Jr., Patrick Shafto -- Chapter Twelve -- The Influence of Social Information on Children's Statistical and Causal Inferences / David M. Sobel, Natasha Z. Kirkham -- Chapter Thirteen -- The Nature of Goal-Directed Action Representations in Infancy / Jessica A. Sommerville, Michaela B. Upshaw, Jeff Loucks.

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