Individual Differences in Children's Preference to Learn From a Confident Informant.

child development cognitive development confidence individual differences selective learning

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 10 05 2019
accepted: 16 08 2019
entrez: 26 9 2019
pubmed: 26 9 2019
medline: 26 9 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Past research has demonstrated that children can use an informant's confidence level to selectively choose from whom to learn. Yet, in any given study, not all children show a preference to learn from the most confident informant. Are individual differences in this preference stable over time and across learning situations? In two studies, we evaluated the stability of preschoolers' performance on selective learning tasks using confidence as a cue. The first study (

Identifiants

pubmed: 31551867
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02006
pmc: PMC6733991
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

2006

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Auteurs

Aimie-Lee Juteau (AL)

Childhood Thinking Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Isabelle Cossette (I)

Childhood Thinking Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Marie-Pier Millette (MP)

Childhood Thinking Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Patricia Brosseau-Liard (P)

Childhood Thinking Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

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