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Direct linkRosie Aboody; Caiqin Zhou; Julian Jara-Ettinger – Child Development, 2025
As adults, we do not expect ignorant agents to behave randomly or always get things wrong. Instead, we expect them to act reasonably, guided by past experiences. We test whether 4-to-6-year-olds share this intuition and use it to infer others' knowledge, or whether they rely on a simple "ignorance = error" heuristic identified in past…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Expectation, Young Children, Inferences
Miranda N. Long; Darko Odic – Child Development, 2025
Children rely on their Approximate Number System to intuitively perceive number. Such adaptations often exhibit sensitivity to real-world statistics. This study investigates a potential manifestation of the ANS's sensitivity to real-world statistics: a negative power-law distribution of objects in natural scenes should be reflected in children's…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Intuition, Mathematics Education
