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Direct linkElfriede R. Holstein; Maria Theobald; Leonie S. Weindorf; Garvin Brod – Child Development, 2025
We investigated the role of children's conflict monitoring skills in revising an intuitive scientific theory. Children aged 5 to 9 (N = 177; 53% girls, data collected in Germany from 2019-2023) completed computer-based tasks on water displacement, a concept prone to misconceptions. Children predicted which of two objects would displace more water…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict, Task Analysis, Foreign Countries
Ganea, Patricia A.; Larsen, Nicole E.; Venkadasalam, Vaunam P. – Child Development, 2021
Children's naive theories include misconceptions which can interfere with science learning. This research examined the effect of pairing anomalies with alternative theories, and their order of presentation, on children's belief revision. Children believe that heavy objects sink and light ones float. In a pre-, mid-, and post-test design,…
Descriptors: Children, Beliefs, Misconceptions, Scientific Literacy
Ghrear, Siba; Fung, Klint; Haddock, Taeh; Birch, Susan A. J. – Child Development, 2021
The ability to make inferences about what one's peers know is critical for social interaction and communication. Three experiments (n = 309) examined the curse of knowledge, the tendency to be biased by one's knowledge when reasoning about others' knowledge, in children's estimates of their peers' knowledge. Four- to 7-year-olds were taught the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Peer Relationship, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Competence
