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Souza, Debora de Hollanda; Suárez, Sarah; Koenig, Melissa Ann – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
The present study was the first to investigate the ability to selectively trust reliable informants in a sample of Brazilian preschool children from two different socioeconomic backgrounds. Ninety-three 3- and 4-year-old children, equally distributed across a low- and medium-SES group, participated. A standard selective trust task was used.…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Socioeconomic Background
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Sobel, David M.; Li, Jin; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Two studies examined how 3-6-year-olds understand the process of learning. In study 1 examined how children spontaneously talk about learning via a CHILDES language analysis. Talk about the learning process increased between the ages of 3-5. Talk specifically about learning in terms of desire decreased during this period. This suggests the…
Descriptors: Intention, Concept Formation, Young Children, Learning Processes