کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
916646 918874 2010 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The role of testimony in young children's solution of a gravity-driven invisible displacement task
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The role of testimony in young children's solution of a gravity-driven invisible displacement task
چکیده انگلیسی

Previous research has shown that young children make a perseverative, gravity-oriented, error when asked to predict the final location of a ball dropped down an S-shaped opaque tube (Hood, 1995). We asked if providing children with verbal information concerning the role that the tubes play, in determining the ball's trajectory would improve their performance. Experiment 1 showed that performance of 3.5-year-olds improved after hearing testimony about the movement of the ball. Experiment 2 showed that the specific content of the testimony – rather than any accompanying non-verbal cues – helped children improve. These findings suggest that other people's testimony can be a valuable source of information when young children learn about the physical world. Indeed, under some circumstances children seem to benefit more from verbal than visual information. An educational implication is that it may sometimes be ineffective to focus on the impact of first-hand experience while marginalizing the role of verbal information.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognitive Development - Volume 25, Issue 3, July–September 2010, Pages 233–246
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