1920's Cause and Effects Generalizations

1920's Generalizations-Cause and Effect Six Generalizations of Cause and Effect • Causes may have predictable an unpredictable effects. (When can you predict the effects of a certain cause? When can you predict that some effect will happen, but you’re not sure what it will be? What are some causes that may have both predictable and unpredictable effects?) • Causes can trigger simple effects or chains of related effects. (What are some examples of causes that both short-term and long-term consequences or effects? What does the “domino effect” mean?) • An effect can be the result of multiple causes with different degrees of influence. (What are some examples of effects that require several different causes or conditions to be met before they can happen? In your examples, are all of the causes equally important to the effect, or are some more influential than others?) • A relationship between events that seems to be cause and effect may actually be correlational or coincidental. (What are some examples of events or characteristics that exist at the same time or one right after the other but are not causally related?) • Causes have short-term and long-term effects. (What are some examples of short- term effects of some of your causes? What are some examples of long-term effects?) • Hindsight and new discoveries can help us to understand past cause and effect relationships. (What does hindsight mean? What are some examples of effects that you can see but can’t always determine the cause right away? What are some effects whose causes are understood by scientists today but might not have understood in the past?)

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