Children's Ability to Impute Inferentially Based Knowledge
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Roshan Rai [1] ; Peter Mitchell [1]
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[1] University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Reino Unido
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- Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 77, Nº. 4, 2006, págs. 1081-1093
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Do young children appreciate the importance of access to premises when judging what another person knows? In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (N=31) were sensitive to another person's access to premises when predicting that person's ability to point to a target after eliminating alternatives in a set of 3 cartoon characters. Experiment 2 replicated the finding when 5- to 6-year-olds (N=102) judged who the other person thought the target was, and whether the other person knew who the target was. Experiment 3 demonstrated that children aged 5–7 years (N=107) more successfully imputed inference by elimination than syllogistical inferential knowledge. Findings suggest that an early understanding of inference by elimination offers a route into understanding that people can sometimes gain knowledge without direct perceptual access.
