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Trust and Skepticism - Children's selective learning from testimony (Paperback)
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Trust and Skepticism - Children's selective learning from testimony (Paperback)
Series: Current Issues in Developmental Psychology
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Children learn a great deal from other people, including history,
science and religion, as well as language itself. Although our
informants are usually well-intentioned, they can be wrong, and
sometimes people deceive deliberately. As soon as children can
learn from what others tell them, they need to be able to evaluate
the likely truth of such testimony. This book is the first of its
kind to provide an overview of the field of testimony research,
summarizing and discussing the latest findings into how children
make such evaluations - when do they trust what people tell them,
and when are they skeptical? The nine chapters are organized
according to the extent to which testimony is necessary for
children to learn the matter in question - from cases where
children are entirely dependent on the testimony of others, to
cases where testimony is merely a convenient way of learning.
Chapters also consider situations where reliance on testimony can
lead a child astray, and the need for children to learn to be
vigilant to deception, to ask questions appropriately, and to
evaluate what they are told. With an international range of
contributors, and two concluding commentaries which integrate the
findings within a broader perspective of research on child
development, the book provides a thorough overview of this emerging
sub-field. Trust and Skepticism will be essential reading for
researchers, academic teachers and advanced students working in the
areas of cognitive development and language development, and will
also be of great interest to educationists concerned with nursery
and primary education.
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