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The Development of Children's Ability to Fill the Gaps in Their Knowledge by Consulting Experts
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Aguiar, Naomi R.; Stoess, Caryn J.; Taylor, Marjorie – Child Development, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Expertise, Child Development, Young Children
[Further Distinctions between Magic, Reality, Religion, and Fiction. Commentaries.]
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Boyer, Pascal; Taylor, Marjorie; Harris, Paul L.; Chandler, Michael; Johnson, Carl N. – Child Development, 1997
Contains the following commentaries: "Further Distinctions between Magic, Reality, Religion, and Fiction"; "The Role of Creative Control and Culture in Children's Fantasy/Reality Judgments"; "The Last of the Magicians? Children, Scientists, and the Invocation of Hidden Causal Powers"; "Rescuing Magical Thinking…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
The Relation between Individual Differences in Fantasy and Theory of Mind.
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Taylor, Marjorie; Carlson, Stephanie M. – Child Development, 1997
Examined relation between early fantasy/pretense and knowledge about mental life in 3- and 4-year olds. Found that performance on theory of mind tasks was significantly intercorrelated when effects of verbal intelligence and age were statistically controlled. Individual differences in fantasy/pretense were related to theory of mind performance in…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Fantasy
The Development of Drawing Rules: Metaknowledge about Drawing Influences Performance on Nondrawing Tasks.
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Taylor, Marjorie; Bacharach, Verne R. – Child Development, 1981
Preschool children were asked to choose the figure most resembling a real man from three figures drawn according to formulas used by children to depict humans. Results suggest development of drawing systems influences children's conceptions about objects or events. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Children's Understanding of Knowledge Acquisition: The Tendency for Children to Report That They Have Always Known What They Have Just Learned.
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Taylor, Marjorie; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Four experiments investigated children's ability to notice and remember events in which the acquisition of factual information occurs. Results indicated that children tend to report they have known newly learned information for a long time, suggesting that children have some understanding of knowledge acquisition, but not at the level of adults.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes