Children's causal learning has been characterized as a rational process, in which children
appropriately evaluate evidence from their observations and actions in light of their existing …

Far from being the uncritical believers young children have been portrayed as, children often
exhibit skepticism toward the reality status of novel entities and events. This article reviews …

In the cultural context of rapidly increasing internet access, two experiments examine how 5-
to 8-year-old Chinese children and adults evaluate information from an unspecified internet …

The view that questions are'requests for missing information'is too simple when language
use is considered. Formally, utterances are questions when they are syntactically marked as …

The influence of a model's age on young children's behaviour has been a subject of
considerable debate among developmental theorists. Despite the recent surge of interest …

Intuitively, the accuracy of initial word‐referent mappings should be positively correlated with
the outcome of learning. Yet recent evidence suggests an inverse effect of initial accuracy in …

The testimony of others and direct experience play a major role in the development of
children's knowledge. Children actively use questions to seek others' testimony and explore …

Theories of cultural evolution tend to agree that teaching is one of the most powerful social
learning mechanisms whereby knowledge gets passed on from one generation to the next …

Bien avant qu'ils ne commencent leur formation scolaire, les jeunes enfants apprennent
d'autres personnes ainsi que des médias écrits et électroniques. Comme quiconque obtient …

Practitioners interview children in a range of settings to assess their wellbeing and to make
decisions about their care. These interviews often have a significant memory component …