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Preschoolers (Sometimes) Defer to the Majority in Making Simple Perceptual Judgments
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Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Three- and 4-year-old children were asked to judge which of a set of 3 lines was the longest, both independently and in the face of an inaccurate consensus among adult informants. Children were invariably accurate when making independent judgments but sometimes deferred to the inaccurate consensus. Nevertheless, the deference displayed by both age…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, North Americans, Children, Preschool Children
Preschoolers' Moral Actions and Emotions in Prisoner's Dilemma.
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Matsumoto, David; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Analyzes the moral acts of 19 dyads of 4-year-olds in a cognitively simplified version of the Prisoner's Dilemma Game in relationship to their friendship, emotions, and processes of conflict resolution. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Response
Relation Between Conceptual Development and Visual Exploration of Incongruity
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Faw, Terry T.; Wingard, Joseph A. – Developmental Psychology, 1977
The relation between conceptual development and visual exploratory behavior was investigated by engaging eighty-four 3-, 4-, and 8-year-old children in a picture-sorting task to determine whether they would spontaneously and readily discriminate between animate and inanimate objects. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation