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Tunçgenç, Bahar; Hohenberger, Annette; Rakoczy, Hannes – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Two studies investigated young 2- and 3-year-old Turkish children's developing understanding of normativity and freedom to act in games. As expected, children, especially 3-year-olds, protested more when there was a norm violation than when there was none. Surprisingly, however, no decrease in normative protest was observed even when the actor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Investigations, Games
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Bonawitz, Elizabeth; Fischer, Adina; Schulz, Laura – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Previous research suggests that 3-year-olds fail to learn from statistical data when their prior beliefs conflict with evidence. Are children's beliefs entrenched in their folk theories, or can preschoolers rationally update their beliefs? Motivated by a Bayesian account, we conducted a training study to investigate this question. Children (45…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Children, Statistical Data, Learning