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Peer reviewedPillow, Bradford H.; Hill, Valerie; Boyce, April; Stein, Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated children's understanding of inference as a knowledge source. Most 4- to 6-year-olds did not rate a puppet as more certain of a toy's color after the puppet looked at the toy or inferred its color than they did after the puppet guessed the color. Most 8- and 9-year-olds distinguished inference and looking from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Deduction
Peer reviewedLee, Kang; Eskritt, Michelle; Symons, Lawrence A.; Muir, Darwin – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Five experiments examined children's use of eye gaze information for inferring another person's desire. Found that 4-year olds used another's eye direction to infer desires, while 3-year olds could use other nonverbal cues. Two- and 3-year olds used eye gaze for desire inference when presented dynamically with other scaffolding cues. When…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Development, Cross Sectional Studies
