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Factors affecting Korean preschoolers’ evidential reasoning: Trust in testimony and understanding of evidential markers

Abstract

The present study examined relationships between preschoolers’ abilities to judge trustworthiness in others’ testimony and information certainty, and also whether their understanding of evidential markers is related to the development of judging information certainty. Three to six-year-old Korean-learning children's ability to ignore an adult’s false testimony and to instead rely on their own experience was measured. Also, these children’s comprehension of evidential markers and abilities to determine more certain information when the two contrasting information was provided, marked by evidential markers or lexical items were obtained. Children’s abilities to trust other’s testimony appeared to uniquely contribute to the development of information certainty judgment around the age of 3-4 years. In addition, children’s ability to comprehend evidential markers positively predicted 3-6-year-olds’ abilities to judge information certainty. These results suggest that both abilities to trust in testimony and acquisition of evidential markers play important roles in children’s development of judging information certainty.

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Submission Date
2012-01-15
Revised Date
2012-02-11
Accepted Date
2012-02-13

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