Three-year-old children heard a story about a genie who needed to transport some jewels over a wall and into a bottle. The genie solved her problem by rolling up a piece of poster board so that it formed a tube, placing one end of the tube in the mouth of the bottle, and rolling the jewels through the tube and into the bottle. After hearing this story, three-year-old children

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Three-year-old children often struggle with abstract reasoning and applying learned solutions to analogous problems, especially if the context changes significantly. The ability to generalize a solution from one context to another, such as using a tube to transport items in different scenarios, typically develops as children grow older. By the age of five, children are better at understanding analogies and applying learned concepts to new situations, which explains why five-year-olds, but not three-year-olds, could suggest a similar solution for the Easter Bunny scenario.

Three-Year-Old Children Heard a Story About a Genie Who Needed