Older children’s exploration also seems to be more targeted at testing what they are told, for example in the preceding example older children are more likely to pick up the two objects to compare their relative weight while younger children are more likely to only pick up the larger object. “Older children engage in such exploratory behavior more frequently than younger children.” “When children between four and seven years old are told something surprising, for example that a smaller object is heavier than a much larger object, they will frequently pick up those objects,” study author Samuel Ronfard, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga told us. A new study published in Child Development looked at whether older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims.
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