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Durkin, Kelley; Shafto, Patrick – Child Development, 2016
The epistemic trust literature emphasizes that children's evaluations of informants' trustworthiness affects learning, but there is no evidence that epistemic trust affects learning in academic domains. The current study investigated how reliability affects decimal learning. Fourth and fifth graders (N = 122; M[subscript age] = 10.1 years)…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Trust (Psychology), Child Development, Reliability
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Samuels, S. Jay – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
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Peterson, Lizette; Gelfand, Donna M. – Child Development, 1984
Causal interpretations of story characters' helpful behavior were examined in first, fourth, and sixth graders, and in college-age students. Subjects heard stories featuring actors' anticipations of eight different consequences for helping. Differences in ratings of actors among age groups were discussed. (Author/CI)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education