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The Origins of Hypothesis Testing: Young Children's Developing Understanding of Information Seeking Compared to Effect Production
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Köksal, Özgün; Sodian, Beate – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
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)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Seeking, Hypothesis Testing, Child Development