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ERIC Number: EJ762775
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jun
Pages: 16
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
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Young Children's Reports of when Learning Occurred
Tang, Connie M.; Bartsch, Karen; Nunez, Narina
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v97 n2 p149-164 Jun 2007
This study investigated young children's reports of when learning occurred. A total of 96 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds were recruited from suburban preschools and elementary schools. The children learned an animal fact and a body movement. A week later, children learned another animal fact and another body movement and then answered questions about when the different learning events occurred. Responses of children who responded correctly to control questions about time supported the hypothesis that temporal distance questions would elicit more correct responses than would temporal location questions. Partial support was also found for the hypothesis that behavior learning would generate more correct reports than would fact learning. Implications for characterizations of children's developing understanding of knowledge and for applications of those characterizations in education and eyewitness testimony are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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