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Download full textMcCormick, Penelope G.; Olson, David R. – 1991
Three different theory of mind tasks were conducted with 4- to 8-year-old Quechua peasant children in the Peruvian Andes. The study investigated the ways in which children in preliterate cultures think and the possibility that they think differently than children in literate cultures. The tasks included: (1) a false-belief task, which tested the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Beliefs, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedPillow, Bradford H. – Child Development, 2002
Two experiments investigated kindergarten through fourth-graders' and adults' ability to evaluate the certainty of deductive inferences, inductive inferences, and guesses, and explain the origins of inferential knowledge. Findings indicated that children rated their own deductions as more certain than guesses, but when judging another person's…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
