The impact of interactivity of touchscreen technology on 4- and 5-year-old children’s causal learning and transfer.

= 139, 69 girls), we not only replicated our previous findings but also found that interaction learning helped children to transfer the causality abstracted from touchscreen to reality. Specifically, interacting with blocks on the touchscreen supported 4-year-old children to successfully perform cross-medium near transfer and 5-year-old children to perform cross-medium near and far transfer, but these abilities were not available for demonstration and video learning. In conclusion, findings demonstrated that touchscreen interactivity has the potential to facilitate 4- and 5-year-olds' causal learning and transfer compared to demonstration and video learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).