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Beck, Sarah R.; McColgan, Kerry L. T.; Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Rowley, Martin G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Children's well-documented tendency to behave as if they know more than they do about uncertain events is reduced under two conditions: when the outcome of a chance event has yet to be determined and when one unknown outcome has occurred but is difficult to imagine. In Experiment 1, in line with published findings, 5- and 6-year-olds (N=61)…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Experimental Psychology, Student Behavior, Identification
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Bernstein, Daniel M.; Loftus, Geoffrey R.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Science, 2005
We introduce computer-based methodologies for investigating object identification in 3- to 5-year-old children. In two experiments, preschool children and adults indicated when they could identify degraded pictures of common objects as those pictures either gradually improved or degraded in clarity. Clarity transformations were implemented in four…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Identification, Object Permanence