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Titel:

“Why is Toma late to school again?” Preschoolers identify the most informative questions.

Dokumenttyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Autor(en):
Ruggeri, Azzurra; Sim, Zi Lin; Xu, Fei
Abstract:
© 2017 APA, all rights reserved). The current study investigates whether preschoolers are able to successfully identify the most effective among given questions, adapting their reliance on different types of questions (constraint-seeking vs. hypothesis-scanning) based on the quantitative measure of expected information gain. Children were presented with storybooks describing the reasons why a fictional character, Toma, was late to school over several days. In 3 experiments with 5-year-old childr...     »
Stichworte:
Cognitive development,Ecological learning,Expected information gain,Question-asking
Zeitschriftentitel:
Developmental Psychology
Jahr:
2017
Band / Volume:
53
Monat:
sep
Heft / Issue:
9
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
1620--1632
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1037/dev0000340
WWW:
http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/dev0000340
Print-ISSN:
1939-0599
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