Children's Ability to Impute Inferentially Based Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	Rai, Roshan; Mitchell, Peter
Titel	Children's Ability to Impute Inferentially Based Knowledge
Quelle	In: Child Development, 77 (2006) 4, S.1081-1093 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00920.x
Schlagwörter	Inferences; Cartoons; Young Children; Access to Information; Age Differences; Prediction; Knowledge Level; Logical Thinking; Thinking Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inference; Inferenz; Zeichentrickfilm; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Vorhersage; Wissensbasis; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	Do young children appreciate the importance of access to premises when judging what another person knows? In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (N=31) were sensitive to another person's access to premises when predicting that person's ability to point to a target after eliminating alternatives in a set of 3 cartoon characters. Experiment 2 replicated the finding when 5- to 6-year-olds (N=102) judged who the other person thought the target was, and whether the other person knew who the target was. Experiment 3 demonstrated that children aged 57 years (N=107) more successfully imputed inference by elimination than syllogistical inferential knowledge. Findings suggest that an early understanding of inference by elimination offers a route into understanding that people can sometimes gain knowledge without direct perceptual access. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10