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Children's ability to infer utterance veracity from speaker informedness.

E J Robinson1, H Champion, P Mitchell

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom. e.j.robinson@bham.ac.uk

Developmental Psychology
|March 19, 1999
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Children can discern reliable information, believing knowledgeable speakers and doubting uninformed ones. This indicates young children possess skepticism and understand speaker knowledge, even without age differences.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Children's understanding of others' knowledge is crucial for social learning.
  • Previous research has explored children's ability to infer mental states.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether children believe information from speakers based on the speaker's perceived knowledge.
  • To examine age-related differences in children's belief attribution.

Main Methods:

  • Children (3y 7m to 6y 5m) were presented with contradictory information about a box's contents from an adult speaker.
  • Children made a final judgment about the box's content after hearing the speaker.
  • Explicit knowledge judgments were also collected on trials without utterances.

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Main Results:

  • Children believed speakers who were more informed than themselves and disbelieved less informed speakers.
  • No significant age-related differences were observed in this belief attribution.
  • Performance on explicit knowledge judgments was unrelated to performance on utterance trials.

Conclusions:

  • Children demonstrate an understanding of a speaker's knowledge, showing appropriate skepticism towards oral input.
  • This suggests children can learn from speech while evaluating its veracity.
  • Further research should incorporate behavioral indicators to assess children's understanding of the mind and theory of mind development.