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Direct linkLapidow, Elizabeth; Killeen, Isabella; Walker, Caren M. – Developmental Science, 2022
During exploration, young children often show an intuitive sensitivity to uncertainty, despite their strong tendency towards overconfidence in their explicit judgments. Here, we examine the development of children's explicit and implicit recognition of uncertainty using the same stimuli. We presented 4- and 5-year-olds with objects that varied in…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Ambiguity (Context), Preschool Children, Evaluative Thinking
Kalish, Charles W.; Zhu, XiaoJin; Rogers, Timothy T. – Developmental Science, 2015
Psychological intuitions about natural category structure do not always correspond to the true structure of the world. The current study explores young children's responses to conflict between intuitive structure and authoritative feedback using a semi-supervised learning (Zhu et al., 2007) paradigm. In three experiments, 160 children between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Child Development, Young Children, Intuition
