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Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2012
Explaining inconsistency may serve as an important mechanism for driving the process of causal learning. But how might this process generate amended beliefs? One way that explaining inconsistency may promote discovery is by guiding exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior. In order to investigate this, a study with young children ranging in age…
Descriptors: Evidence, Young Children, Testing, Beliefs
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Thelen, Mark H.; And Others – Child Development, 1972
With no expectancy to perform, vicarious reward had no effect on spontaneous imitation. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Expectation, Imitation
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Wachs, Theodore D.; Gruen, Gerald E. – Child Development, 1971
Results indicated that availability of categories rather than frequency of words seemed most crucial in determining developmental changes in clustering efficiency. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Classification, Cluster Grouping