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Köymen, Bahar; Mammen, Maria; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2016
In the context of joint decision-making, we investigated whether preschoolers alter the informativeness of their justifications depending on the common ground that they share with their partner. Pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 146) were introduced to a novel animal with unique characteristics (e.g., eating rocks). In the common ground condition,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Social Cognition
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Hund, Alycia M.; Plumert, Jodie M. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors investigated how 3- and 4-year-old children and adults use relative distance to judge nearbyness. Participants judged whether several blocks were by a landmark. The absolute and relative distance of the blocks from the landmark varied. In Experiment 1, judgments of nearbyness decreased as the distance from the landmark increased, …
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Geographic Location, Educational Experiments