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Peer reviewedEsbensen, Bonnie M.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1997
Two experiments compared preschoolers' awareness of knowledge transitions involving behavioral changes to those involving vocabulary or general knowledge changes. Found that children tended to report they had learned something new when novel information was behavioral (e.g., counting in Japanese) and tended to claim prior knowledge when the novel…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level, Memory
