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Direct linkFusaro, Maria; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Much recent evidence shows that preschoolers are sensitive to the accuracy of an informant. Faced with two informants, one of whom names familiar objects accurately and the other inaccurately, preschoolers subsequently prefer to learn the names and functions of unfamiliar objects from the more accurate informant. This study examined the inference…
Descriptors: Evidence, Individual Differences, Human Body, Inferences
