کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
918742 919516 2008 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Children’s sensitivity to circular explanations
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Children’s sensitivity to circular explanations
چکیده انگلیسی

The ability to evaluate the quality of explanations is an essential part of children’s intellectual growth. Explanations can be faulty in structural ways such as when they are circular. A circular explanation reiterates the question as if it were an explanation rather than providing any new information. Two experiments (N = 77) examined children’s preferences when faced with circular and noncircular explanations. The results demonstrate that a preference for noncircular explanations is present, albeit in a fragile form, by 5 or 6 years of age and that it appears robustly by 10 years of age. Thus, the ability to evaluate the quality of explanations based on structural grounds appears to develop rapidly during the elementary school years.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology - Volume 100, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 146–155
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