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Butler, Lucas P.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2012
Children are judicious social learners. They may be particularly sensitive to communicative actions done pedagogically for their benefit, as such actions may mark important, generalizable information. Three experiments (N = 224) found striking differences in preschoolers' inductive generalization and exploration of a novel functional property,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Evidence, Cues, Inferences