Extending the testimony problem: Evaluating the truth, scope, and source of cultural information

被引:30
作者
Bergstrom, B [1 ]
Moehlmann, B [1 ]
Boyer, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ, Dept Psychol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
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10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00888.x
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G44 [教育心理学];
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0402 [心理学]; 040202 [发展与教育心理学];
摘要
Children's learning-in the domains of science and religion specifically, but in many other cultural domains as well-relies extensively on testimony and other forms of culturally transmitted information. The cognitive processes that enable such learning must also administrate the evaluation, qualification, and storage of that information, while guarding against the dangers of false or misleading input. Currently, the development of these appraisal processes is not clearly understood. Recent work, reviewed here, has begun to address three important dimensions of the problem: how children and adults evaluate truth in communication, how they gauge the inferential potential of information, and how they encode and evaluate its source.
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