Children's Appreciation of Humor: A Test of the Cognitive Congruency Principle

Earlier studies of attention in infancy and of problem solving in young children provided support for a "discrepancy hypothesis," which proposes an inverted-U relationship between amount of discrepancy between existing cognitive structures and current stimulus input and amount of pleasure...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Child development 1976-06, Vol.47 (2), p.420-426
1. Verfasser:	McGhee, Paul E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cartoons Child development Children Comprehension Conservation of mass Grade 1 Humor Jokes Mass Mental stimulation
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