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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 568-580Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01416.x
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This study investigated whether one hundred and thirty-five 3- to 6-year-old children exhibit a yes bias to various yes-no questions and whether their knowledge status affects the production of a yes bias. Three-year-olds exhibited a yes bias to all yes-no questions such as preference-object and knowledge-object questions pertaining to objects, and knowledge-face questions pertaining to facial expressions. Four-year-olds tended to say yes only to knowledge-object questions. Five-year-olds did not show any strong response tendency. Six-year-olds exhibited a nay-saying bias to knowledge-face questions. Also, 3-year-olds could indicate the correct option when asked questions with 2 response options. It suggested that 3-year-olds tended to inappropriately say yes to yes-no questions, although they knew the answers to the questions. The mechanism of a yes bias was discussed.
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