Effects of Context on Judgments Concerning the Reality Status of Novel Entities

Autor/inn/en	Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Van Reet, Jennifer
Titel	Effects of Context on Judgments Concerning the Reality Status of Novel Entities
Quelle	In: Child Development, 77 (2006) 6, S.1778-1793 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00973.x
Schlagwörter	Cues; Inferences; Decision Making; Familiarity; Context Effect; Children; Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Inference; Inferenz; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Elementarunterricht; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik
Abstract	Three studies examined the effects of context on decisions about the reality status of novel entities. In Experiment 1 (144, 3- to 5-year-olds), participants less often claimed that novel entities were real when they were introduced in a fantastical than in a scientific context. Experiment 2 (61, 4- to 5-year-olds) revealed that defining novel entities with reference to scientific entities had a stronger effect on reality status judgments than did hearing scientifically oriented stories before encountering the novel entities. The results from Experiment 3 (192, 3- to 6-year-olds) indicated that definitions that support inferences facilitate reality status judgments more than do definitions that simply associate novel and familiar entities. These findings demonstrate that children share with adults an important means of assessing reality status. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10