Young children's reports of when learning occurred |
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Authors: | Tang Connie M Bartsch Karen Nunez Narina |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240, USA. connie.tang@stockton.edu |
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Abstract: | 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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Keywords: | Cognitive development Metacognition Knowledge acquisition Source monitoring Time understanding |
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