Children aged 7 to 10 adapt their question-asking strategy to the likelihood distribution of hypotheses as promptly as adults¶
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q2 i? Seven- to 10-year-olds ask more constraint-seeking questions under uniform distributions and more hypothesis-scanning questions under skewed distributions, adapting as promptly as adults. → Azzurra Ruggeri 2022
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Azzurra Ruggeri 2022¶
Azzurra Ruggeri. (2022). An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221112114
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The review reports, citing Ruggeri and Lombrozo (2015), that children aged 7 to 10 generate different question types depending on the likelihood distribution, and 'they do this as promptly as adults (Ruggeri & Lombrozo, 2015).' No effect size is printed.
"Seven- to 10-year-olds generate different types of questions—hypothesis scanning and constraint seeking—depending on the likelihood distribution of the hypotheses under consideration."
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Related Claims¶
- Five-year-olds select the more informative question under both uniform and skewed hypothesis distributions despite weak question generation — related
- Children as young as 3 adapt their exploratory actions to the statistical structure of a search task — a broader claim this one bears on
- Explicit training in constraint-seeking questions showed only moderate, non-generalizing benefits, whereas prompting explanation supports better question asking — related
- Children's exploratory behavior is related to their question asking — related
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Children aged 7 to 10 adapt their question-asking strategy to the likelihood distribution of hypotheses as promptly as adults |
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Children aged 7 to 10 adapt their question-asking strategy to the likelihood distribution of hypotheses as promptly as adults |
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