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Direct linkLane, Jonathan D.; Wellman, Henry M.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2013
This study examined how informants' traits affect how children seek information, trust testimony, and make inferences about informants' knowledge. Eighty-one 3- to 6-year-olds and 26 adults completed tasks where they requested and endorsed information provided by one of two informants with conflicting traits (e.g., honesty vs. dishonesty).…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Access to Information, Inferences, Trust (Psychology)
Spence, Sarah; Helwig, Charles C. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2013
Children's, adolescents', and adults' (N = 96 7-8, 10-11, and 13-14-year-olds and university students) epistemological development and its relation to judgments and reasoning about teaching methods was examined. The domain (scientific or moral), nature of the topic (controversial or noncontroversial), and teaching method (direct instruction by…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Evaluative Thinking, Logical Thinking, Teaching Methods
