The Smart Nonconserver: Preschoolers Detect Their Number Conservation Errors

Q1 Social Sciences
W. Neys, A. Lubin, O. Houdé
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Abstract

Classic developmental studies have established that children’s number conservation is often biased by misleading intuitions. However, the precise nature of these conservation errors is not clear. A key question is whether children detect that their erroneous conservation judgment is unwarranted. The present study focuses on this critical error sensitivity issue. Preschool children were given a classic version of a number conservation task in which an intuitively cued response conflicted with the correct conservation response and a control version in which this conflict was not present. After solving each version children were asked to indicate their response confidence. Results showed that in contrast with children who gave a correct conservation response, preschoolers who erred showed a sharp confidence decrease after solving the classic conflict problem. This suggests that nonconserving preschoolers detect that their response is questionable and are less ignorant about conservation than their well-documented errors might have previously suggested.
聪明的不保守者:学龄前儿童发现他们的数字保守错误
经典的发展研究已经证实,儿童的数字守恒常常受到误导的直觉的影响。然而,这些守恒误差的确切性质尚不清楚。一个关键的问题是孩子们是否发现他们错误的保守判断是没有根据的。本研究的重点是这一关键误差敏感性问题。学龄前儿童被分配了一个经典版本的数字守恒任务,其中直觉暗示的反应与正确的守恒反应相冲突,而在对照版本中,这种冲突不存在。在解决了每个版本后,孩子们被要求表明他们的回答信心。结果表明,与做出正确保守反应的儿童相比,犯错的学龄前儿童在解决经典冲突问题后自信心急剧下降。这表明,不保守的学龄前儿童意识到他们的反应是有问题的,他们对保守的无知程度并不像他们之前被充分记录的错误所暗示的那样。
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Child development research
Child development research Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
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期刊介绍: Child Development Research is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of child development research.
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