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Developmental psychology · Feb 2013
The effect of delay and individual differences on children's tendency to guess.
- Amanda H Waterman and Mark Blades.
- Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. a.h.waterman@leeds.ac.uk
- Dev Psychol. 2013 Feb 1;49(2):215-26.
AbstractFew researchers have investigated the factors that influence children's tendency to indicate correctly when they do not know the answer to a question. In this study, 5- to 8-year-olds witnessed a staged event in their classroom and were subsequently interviewed about that event either the following day or after 5 months. Some of the questions were answerable based on the information in the event, and some were unanswerable such that children would have had to guess to provide an answer. Individual-difference measures were taken of children's verbal ability and self-perceptions. Delay, verbal ability, and children's self-perceptions all affected whether children correctly indicated when they did not know the answer to a question.(c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved.
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