The Origins of Hypothesis Testing: Young Children's Developing Understanding of Information Seeking Compared to Effect Production

Autor/inn/en	Köksal, Özgün; Sodian, Beate
Titel	The Origins of Hypothesis Testing: Young Children's Developing Understanding of Information Seeking Compared to Effect Production
Quelle	In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20 (2023) 4, S.694-708 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Köksal, Özgün)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-5629
DOI	10.1080/17405629.2023.2212901
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Information Seeking; Hypothesis Testing; Child Development; Preschool Children; Intervention; Developmental Stages; Cognitive Ability; Task Analysis; Familiarity; Instructional Materials; Child Care Centers; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationserschließung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Kindesentwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Denkfähigkeit; Aufgabenanalyse; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Understanding that hypothesis testing is aimed at seeking information rather than producing desirable outcomes is indispensable for designing informative experiments. This study investigated the developmental course of information seeking compared to producing an effect in young children. In a between-subjects design, 4- to 6-year-olds (N = 109) were presented with the same pattern of events and asked to choose an intervention to either seek information on whether a hypothesis is right or produce an effect. The results revealed a developmental change between 4 and 6 years of age. From 5.5 years and onwards, children selectively chose the correct interventions in both conditions, whereas 4- and younger 5-year-olds did not. Contrary to the general view that producing desirable outcomes developmentally precedes engaging in information seeking, the present findings indicate that they follow a similar developmental line in the early childhood years. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01