Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict

Autor/inn/en	Hermansen, Tone K.; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Zambrana, Imac M.
Titel	Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 6, S.2546-2562 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hermansen, Tone K.) ORCID (Ronfard, Samuel) ORCID (Harris, Paul L.) ORCID (Zambrana, Imac M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13612
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Cognitive Processes; Observation; Investigations; Discovery Learning; Toys; Epistemology; Information Seeking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Beobachtung; Untersuchung; Entdeckendes Lernen; Toy; Spielzeug; Erkenntnistheorie; Informationserschließung
Abstract	Children (N = 278, 34-71 months, 54% girls) were told which of two figurines turned on a music box and also observed empirical evidence either confirming or conflicting with that testimony. Children were then asked to sort novel figurines according to whether they could make the music box work or not. To see whether children would explore which figurine turned on the music box, especially when the observed and testimonial evidence conflicted, children were given access to the music box during their sorting. However, children rarely explored. Indeed, they struggled to disregard the misleading testimony both when sorting the figurines and when asked about a future attempt. In contrast, children who explored the effectiveness of the figurines dismissed the misleading testimony. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01