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Derksen, Daniel G.; Giroux, Megan E.; Newman, Eryn J.; Bernstein, Daniel M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
When semantically-related photos appear with true-or-false trivia claims, people more often rate the claims as true compared to when photos are absent--"truthiness." This occurs even when the photos lack information useful for assessing veracity. We tested whether truthiness changed in magnitude as a function of participants' age in a…
Descriptors: Credibility, Semantics, Evaluative Thinking, Age Groups
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Cheung, Pierina; Ansari, Daniel – Developmental Psychology, 2021
"Place value," which underlies the meanings of multidigits, encompasses the principle of position and base-10 rules. To understand 65, one needs to know that the digits 6 and 5 occupy different positions and thus represent ordered values of different magnitudes (i.e., the "principle of position") and that the value of each…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Children, Child Development, Age Differences
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Shultz, Thomas R.; Wells, Diane – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Assessed use of certain rules for judging intentionality of action-outcomes by children of 3, 7, and 11 years. Intentionality judgments based on matching rather than objective rules were observed more frequently. It was concluded that matching rule emerges first in development and is more essential than various objective rules. (Author/DST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children, Early Childhood Education