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- Title
Children's response biases to results of object sharing.
- Authors
Okanda, Mako; Taniguchi, Kosuke
- Abstract
Summary: This study investigated whether 2‐ to 6‐year‐old children exhibit a response bias to questions pertaining to the results of sharing objects that should attract their interest. An experimenter distributed four objects between herself/himself and a child, equally or unequally (more to the child or more to the experimenter) and asked the child yes‐no questions: "Is this okay?" and "Is this bad?" The results indicated that 2‐ and 3‐year‐olds exhibited a yes bias in all conditions, 4‐year‐olds exhibited a yes bias to the equal condition and to the unequal condition with more distributed to the child, and 5‐year‐olds exhibited a yes bias to both unequal conditions, whereas 6‐year‐olds did not show any response bias. Young preschoolers exhibited a yes bias regardless of questions and children may become able to say both "yes" and "no" appropriately to questions about object sharing after the age of six.
- Subjects
PRESCHOOL children
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 5, p1013
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.3680