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Palmquist, Carolyn M.; Burns, Heather E.; Jaswal, Vikram K. – Cognitive Development, 2012
By 4 years of age, children have been reinforced repeatedly for searching where they see someone point. In two studies, we asked whether this history of reinforcement could interfere with young children's ability to discriminate between a knowledgeable and an ignorant informant. Children watched as one informant hid a sticker while another turned…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Reinforcement, Knowledge Level