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INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 61-71Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/icd.591
Keywords
testimony; cognitive development; social cognition; speaker credibility
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R03 HD053403, R03 HD053403-02, N01 HD053403] Funding Source: Medline
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R03HD053403] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Do preschoolers think adults know more about everything than children? Or do they recognize that there are some things that children might know more about than adults? Three-, four-, and five-year olds (N = 65) were asked to decide whether an adult or child informant would better be able to answer a variety of questions about the nutritional value of foods and about toys. Children at all ages chose to direct the food questions to the adult and the toy questions to the child. Thus, there are some kinds of information for which preschoolers; expect that a child would be a better informant than an adult. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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