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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.

Table of Contents

The Probable and the Possible at 12 Months: Intuitive Reasoning about the Uncertain Future
Probabilistic Inference in Human Infants
Reasoning about Instrumental and Communicative Agency in Human Infancy
Can Rational Models be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales
Learning About Causes from People, and about People as Causes: Probabilistic Models and Social Causal Reasoning
Rational Randomness: The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler’s Causal Learning
Developing a concept of choice
Irrational Inferences? When Children Ignore Evidence in Category-Based Induction
A Number of Options: Rationalist, Constructivist and Bayesian Insights into the Development of Exact-Number Concepts
Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts
Unifying Pedagogical Reasoning and Epistemic Trust
The Influence of Social Information on Children’s Statistical and Causal Inferences
The Nature of Goal-Directed Action Representations in Infancy