The development of children's ability to fill the gaps in their knowledge by consulting experts.

Autor: Aguiar NR; Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. naguiar@uoregon.edu, Stoess CJ, Taylor M
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child development [Child Dev] 2012 Jul-Aug; Vol. 83 (4), pp. 1368-81. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 May 22.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01782.x
Abstrakt: This research investigated children's ability to recognize gaps in their knowledge and seek missing information from appropriate informants. In Experiment 1, forty-five 4- and 5-year-olds were adept in assigning questions from 3 domains (medicine, firefighting, and farming) to corresponding experts (doctor, firefighter, or farmer). However, when given the options of answering the same questions themselves or assigning them to an expert (Experiment 2), only 6-year-olds were consistently able to recognize when they did not know answers and then assign test questions correctly. Four- and 5-year-olds tended to overestimate their own knowledge or assign questions to the wrong expert. This result was replicated in Experiment 3, in which 5-year-olds were given incentives for correct answers.
(© 2012 The Authors. Child Development © 2012 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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