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Ruggeri, Azzurra; Lombrozo, Tania; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Xu, Fei – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Children are active learners: they learn not only from the information people offer and the evidence they happen to observe, but by actively seeking information. However, children's information search strategies are typically less efficient than those of adults. In two studies, we isolate potential sources of developmental change in how children…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Structures
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Shuart, Viola E.; Lewko, John H. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1988
Explores content or contextual validity of social rule classifications produced by sample of 12-year-old child coders. Analyses of variances revealed that categorization schemes generated by child coders were contextually valid as determined by raters' mean ratings. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Freshmen