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Title:

Children's Active Physical Learning Is as Effective and Goal-Targeted as Adults'

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Bramley, Neil R.; Ruggeri, Azzurra
Abstract:
We explore how children and adults actively experiment within the physical world to achieve different epistemic goals. In our experiment, one hundred one 4 to 10-year-old children and 24 adults either passively observed or used a touchscreen interface to actively interact with objects in a dynamic physical microworld with the goal of inferring one of two latent physical properties: relative object masses or local forces of attraction and repulsion. We find an age improvement in judgments as well...     »
Keywords:
Active learning,Bayesian statistics,Cognitive development,Intuitive physics,Mental simulation
Journal title:
Developmental Psychology
Year:
2022
Journal volume:
58
Journal issue:
12
Pages contribution:
2310--2321
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1037/dev0001435
Print-ISSN:
00121649
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