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Direct linkFrench, Jason A.; Menendez, David; Herrmann, Patricia A.; Evans, E. Margaret; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
We investigated children's (n = 120; 3- to 11-year-olds) and adults' (n = 18) reasoning about life-cycle changes in biological organisms by examining their endorsements of four different patterns of life- span changes. Participants were presented with two separate tasks: (a) judging possible adult versions of a juvenile animal and (b) judging…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Logical Thinking, Biology
Farrar, M. Jeffrey; Boyer-Pennington, Michelle – Infant and Child Development, 2011
We examined developmental changes in children's inductive inferences about biological concepts as a function of knowledge of properties and concepts. Specifically, 4- to 5-year-olds and 9- to 10-year-olds were taught either familiar or unfamiliar internal, external, or functional properties about known and unknown target animals. Children were…
Descriptors: Inferences, Developmental Stages, Biology, Age Differences
