ERIC Number: EJ746095
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 14
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 46
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Children's Sensitivity to Their Own Relative Ignorance: Handling of Possibilities Under Epistemic and Physical Uncertainty
Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Rowley, Martin G.; Beck, Sarah R.; Carroll, Dan J.; Apperly, Ian A.
Child Development, v77 n6 p1642-1655 Nov-Dec 2006
Children more frequently specified possibilities correctly when uncertainty resided in the physical world (physical uncertainty) than in their own perspective of ignorance (epistemic uncertainty). In Experiment 1 (N=61), 4- to 6-year-olds marked both doors from which a block might emerge when the outcome was undetermined, but a single door when they knew the block was hidden behind one door. In Experiments 2 (N=30; 5- to 6-year-olds) and 3 (N=80; 5- to 8-year-olds), children placed food in both possible locations when an imaginary pet was yet to occupy one, but in a single location when the pet was already hidden in one. The results have implications for interpretive theory of mind and "curse of knowledge."
Descriptors: Young Children, Epistemology, Physical Environment, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Child Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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