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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 169-179Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.36.2.169
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Three experiments investigated children's understanding of inference as a source of knowledge. Children observed a puppet make a statement about the color of one of two hidden toys after the puppet (a) looked directly at the toy (looking), (b) looked at the other top (inference), or (c) looked at neither toy (guessing). Most 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds did not rate the puppet as bring more certain of the toy's color after the puppet looked directly at it or inferred its color than they did after the puppet guessed its color. Most 8-and 9-year-olds distinguished inference and looking from guessing. The tendency to explain the puppet's knowledge by referring to inference increased with age. Children who referred to inference in their explanations were more likely to judge deductive inference as more certain than guessing.
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