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McWhirter, Elizabeth P. – 1979
Interpretation of experimental tasks is influenced by knowledge of the language used, by assessment of what the experimenter intends, and by how subjects themselves would normally represent the physical situation. Whether these processes in which children engage in cognitive studies differ from those employed by adults in similar tasks was…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children