Exploring Explanation: Explaining Inconsistent Evidence Informs Exploratory, Hypothesis-Testing Behavior in Young Children

Explaining inconsistency may serve as an important mechanism for driving the process of causal learning.But how might this process generate amended beliefs? One way that explaining inconsistency may promote discovery is by guiding exploratory, hypothesis-testing behavior. In order to investigate thi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Child development 2012-01, Vol.83 (1), p.173-185
1. Verfasser:	Legare, Cristine H.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Differences Age Factors Age groups Association Learning Behavior Beliefs Biological and medical sciences Causal analysis Causal explanations Causality Child Child Development Child psychology Child, Preschool Children Cognition Cognitive Processes Cognitive psychology Color Perception Concept Formation Culture Data Analysis Developmental psychology Discovery EMPIRICAL ARTICLES Empirical research Evidence Experimentation Exploratory Behavior Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Inconsistency Influences Interview, Psychological Investigations Judgment Knowledge acquisition Learning Legal objections Male Outcomes of Education Pattern Recognition, Visual Preschool children Prior learning Problem Solving Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Social behaviour Student Behavior Testing Young Children
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