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Kim, Sunae; Kalish, Charles W.; Harris, Paul L. – Cognitive Development, 2012
Prior work shows that children can make inductive inferences about objects based on their labels rather than their appearance (Gelman, 2003). A separate line of research shows that children's trust in a speaker's label is selective. Children accept labels from a reliable speaker over an unreliable speaker (e.g., Koenig & Harris, 2005). In the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Inferences, Classification, Young Children