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Doherty, Martin J.; Wimmer, Marina C.; Gollek, Cornelia; Stone, Charlotte; Robinson, Elizabeth J. – Child Development, 2021
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment 1, 3- to 5-year-olds (N = 117) completed jigsaw puzzles that were normal, had no picture, or…
Descriptors: Puzzles, Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Young Children
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Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Rowley, Martin G.; Beck, Sarah R.; Carroll, Dan J.; Apperly, Ian A. – Child Development, 2006
Children more frequently specified possibilities correctly when uncertainty resided in the physical world (physical uncertainty) than in their own perspective of ignorance (epistemic uncertainty). In Experiment 1 (N=61), 4- to 6-year-olds marked both doors from which a block might emerge when the outcome was undetermined, but a single door when…
Descriptors: Young Children, Epistemology, Physical Environment, Task Analysis