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Direct linkMöhring, Wenke; Frick, Andrea – Child Development, 2013
In this study, 6-month-olds' ability to mentally rotate objects was investigated using the violation-of-expectation paradigm. Forty infants watched an asymmetric object being moved straight down behind an occluder. When the occluder was lowered, it revealed the original object (possible) or its mirror image (impossible) in one of five…
Descriptors: Infants, Expectation, Discovery Learning, Experiments
Peer reviewedPenner, David E.; Klahr, David – Child Development, 1996
Nine- through 14-year-old girls made predictions about and performed experiments involving sinking objects. Found that children initially believed that weight alone determined an object's sinking rate, older but not younger children viewed experimentation as a way of exploring object attributes other than weight, and experimentation helped…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes
