Selective Information Seeking after a Single Encounter

Autor/inn/en	Fitneva, Stanka A.; Dunfield, Kristen A.
Titel	Selective Information Seeking after a Single Encounter
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 5, S.1380-1384 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0019818
Schlagwörter	Information Seeking; Experiments; Evaluation; Probability; Young Children; Adults; Statistical Analysis; Bayesian Statistics; Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationserschließung; Erprobung; Evaluierung; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Frühe Kindheit; Statistische Analyse; Wahrnehmung
Abstract	In 3 experiments, the authors examined whether a single act of testimony can inform children's subsequent information seeking. In Experiment 1, participants saw one informant give a correct and another informant give an incorrect answer to a question, assessed who was "right" ("wrong"), and decided to whom to address a 2nd question. Adults and 7-year-olds but not 4-year-olds selected the previously correct informant. In Experiment 2, after assessing which informant was ("not") "very good" at answering, even 4-year-olds selected the previously correct informant. In Experiment 3, in the absence of external demands to evaluate the informants, 7-year-olds and adults still selected the previously correct informant. Thus, a single encounter is sufficient for 7-year-olds and adults to engage in selective information seeking and trait labels enable 4-year-olds to do so too. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10