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Titel:

Shake it baby, but only when needed: Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task

Dokumenttyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Autor(en):
Ruggeri, Azzurra; Swaboda, Nora; Sim, Zi Lin; Gopnik, Alison
Abstract:
Previous research has suggested that active engagement with the world drives children's remarkable learning capabilities. We investigated whether preschoolers are “ecological learners,” that is, whether they are able to select those active learning strategies that are most informative in a given task. Children had to choose which of two exploratory actions (open vs. shake) to perform to find an egg shaker hidden in one of four small boxes, contained in two larger boxes. Prior to this game, child...     »
Stichworte:
Active learning,Adaptiveness,Ecological learning,Exploration,Preschoolers
Zeitschriftentitel:
Cognition
Jahr:
2019
Band / Volume:
193
Monat:
dec
Heft / Issue:
June
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
104013
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104013
WWW:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104013 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027719301866
Verlag / Institution:
Elsevier
Print-ISSN:
00100277
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