Young Children's Sensitivity to Their Own Ignorance in Informing Others.

ABSTRACT: Prior research suggests that young children selectively inform others depending on others' knowledge states. Yet, little is known whether children selectively inform others depending on their own knowledge states. To explore this issue, we manipulated 3- to 4-year-old children's knowledge about the content of a box and assessed the impact on their decisions to inform another person. Moreover, we assessed the presence of uncertainty gestures while they inform another person in light of the suggestions that children's gestures reflect early developing, perhaps transient, epistemic sensitivity. Finally, we compared children's performance in the informing context to their explicit verbal judgment of their knowledge states to further confirm the existence of a performance gap between the two ta

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4811410 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature