What Children Do in Spite of What They Know
- 22 November 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 162 (3856) , 921-925
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3856.921
Abstract
New studies support the hypothesis that young children have basic cognitive capacities but utilize them inefficiently; older children aid these capacities with generally valid cognitive heuristics which produce poor performance on critical problems.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Quantification, Conservation, and NativismScience, 1968
- Cognitive Capacity of Very Young ChildrenScience, 1967