Explaining and exploring the dynamics of parent-child interactions and children's causal reasoning at a children's museum exhibit.
Journal
Child development
ISSN: 1467-8624
Titre abrégé: Child Dev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0372725
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
29 Nov 2023
29 Nov 2023
Historique:
medline:
29
11
2023
pubmed:
29
11
2023
entrez:
29
11
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
This study examines how parents' and children's explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors support children's causal reasoning at a museum in San Jose, CA in 2017. One-hundred-nine parent-child dyads (3-6 years; 56 girls, 53 boys; 32 White, 9 Latino/Hispanic, 17 Asian-American, 17 South Asian, 1 Pacific Islander, 26 mixed ethnicity, 7 unreported) played at an air flow exhibit with a nonobvious causal mechanism. Children's causal reasoning was probed afterward. The timing of parents' explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors was related to children's systematic exploration during play. Children's exploratory behavior, and parents' goal setting during play, were related to children's subsequent causal reasoning. These findings support the hypothesis that children's exploration is related to both internal learning processes and external social scaffolding.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : 1420241
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : 1420259
Organisme : National Science Foundation
ID : 1420548
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Child Development © 2023 Society for Research in Child Development.
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