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Title:

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

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
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...     »
Keywords:
Cognitive development,Ecological learning,Expected information gain,Question-asking
Journal title:
Developmental Psychology
Year:
2017
Journal volume:
53
Month:
sep
Journal issue:
9
Pages contribution:
1620--1632
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1037/dev0000340
WWW:
http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/dev0000340
Print-ISSN:
1939-0599
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