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Köymen, Bahar; O'Madagain, Cathal; Domberg, Andreas; Tomasello, Michael – Child Development, 2020
In collaborative problem solving, children produce and evaluate arguments for proposals. We investigated whether 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 192) can produce and evaluate arguments against those arguments (i.e., counter-arguments). In Study 1, each child within a peer dyad was privately given a reason to prefer one over another solution to a task. One…
Descriptors: Young Children, Persuasive Discourse, Evaluative Thinking, Problem Solving