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Betsch, Tilmann; Lang, Anna – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
We studied risky choices in preschoolers, elementary schoolers, and adults using an information board paradigm crossing two options with two cues that differ in their probability of making valid predictions (p = 0.50 vs. p = 0.83). We also varied the presence of normatively irrelevant information. Choice patterns indicate that preschoolers were…
Descriptors: Prediction, Probability, Preschool Children, Cues
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Elsner, Birgit; Pfeifer, Caroline – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The impact of goal salience and verbal cues given by the model on 3- to 5-year-olds' reproduction of action components (movement or goal) was investigated in an imitation choice task. Preschoolers watched an experimenter moving a puppet up or down a ramp, terminating at one of two target objects. The target objects were either differently colored…
Descriptors: Cues, Imitation, Children, Preschool Education