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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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Nicholls, John G. – Child Development, 1971
Game-like and test-like methods of divergent thinking assessment were compared with 10-year olds. Effects of method on score correlates were sufficient to allow the possibility that method may be implicated in outcomes of many studies of divergent thinking. (Author)
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Divergent Thinking, Intelligence Tests
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Anyan, Walter R., Jr.; Quillian, Warren W., II – Child Development, 1971
In the fifth and sixth years of life, the ability of girls to identify primary colors by name is greater than that of boys. Children in the sixth year who attend school outperform those who have not been to school, and girls of this age who have not been to school name colors as well as boys who attend school. (Authors)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Females, Males
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White, Kathleen M. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Ability