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The Emergence of the Empirical Stance: Children's Testing of Counterintuitive Claims
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Ronfard, Samuel; Chen, Eva E.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although children often believe an adult's claims, they may have opportunities to check these claims by gathering relevant empirical evidence themselves. Here, we examine whether children seize such opportunities, especially when the claim is counterintuitive. Chinese preschool and elementary schoolchildren were presented with five different-sized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Development
Deciding in the Dark: Age Differences in Intuitive Risk Judgment
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Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Elevated levels of risky behavior in adolescence may signal developmental change in unconscious appraisal of risk. Yet, prior research examining adolescent risk judgment has used tasks that elicit conscious deliberation. The present study, in contrast, attempts to characterize age differences in (less conscious) intuitive impressions of risk.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Risk, Intuition, Adolescents
Development of Intuitions about Support beyond Infancy
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Krist, Horst – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In a series of 3 experiments modeled after infant studies, 3- to- 6-year-old children's intuitive knowledge about support was assessed. Different objects were shown either sufficiently supported or not. Children had to predict whether a block would remain standing on a platform upon release or make perceptual judgments about the possibility of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Intuition, Physics
Development of Proportional Reasoning: Where Young Children Go Wrong
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Boyer, Ty W.; Levine, Susan C.; Huttenlocher, Janellen – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Previous studies have found that children have difficulty solving proportional reasoning problems involving discrete units until 10 to 12 years of age, but can solve parallel problems involving continuous quantities by 6 years of age. The present studies examine where children go wrong in processing proportions that involve discrete quantities. A…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Children, Elementary Education
Beliefs of Children and Adults About Feeling Stares of Unseen Others.
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Cottrell, Jane E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Investigated beliefs about feeling the stares of an unseen other. Found that most adults and young children believed they could feel the unseen stares of another, and across age there were some increases in beliefs about the feeling. Participants believed that in order to feel stares, some cognitive maturity was required. (MOK)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Development of Intuitive Theories of Motion: Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces.
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Kaiser, Mary Kister; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the development of intuitive theories of motion among college students and children between the ages of 4 and 12. School-aged children made more erroneous predictions on the path a ball takes upon exiting a curved tube than preschoolers, kindergarteners, and college students. Results related to the "growth error." (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, College Students, Elementary Education