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Title:

Finding the (Most Efficient) Way Out of a Maze Is Easier Than Asking (Good) Questions

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Swaboda, Nora; Meder, Björn; Ruggeri, Azzurra
Abstract:
We investigate whether a spatial representation of a search task supports 4 to 7-year-old children's information-search strategies, relative to their performance in a question-asking game. Children played two computationally and structurally analogous search games: a spatial search task, the maze-exploration game, in which they had to discover the path through a maze by removing masks covering its passages; and a verbal search task, the 20-questions game, where they had to identify a target mon...     »
Keywords:
20-questions game,Active learning,Information search
Journal title:
Developmental Psychology
Year:
2022
Journal volume:
58
Journal issue:
9
Pages contribution:
1730--1746
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1037/dev0001386
Print-ISSN:
00121649
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