What Children Do in Spite of What They Know

Thomas G. Bever, Jacques Mehler, Joyce S. Epstein, Harry Beilin

Science · 1968 · 70 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

New studies support the hypothesis that young children have basic cognitive capacities but utilize them inefficiently; older children aid these capacities with generally valid cognitive heuristics which produce poor performance on critical problems.

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