Imagining what might be: Why children underestimate uncertainty

2011/07/28 by Sarah R. Beck, Kerry L.T. McColgan, Kerry L. McColgan +3 · 4 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive Science and Education Research #Science Education and Pedagogy

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.06.010

Citations

• Children's Sensitivity to Their Own Relative Ignorance: Handling of Possibilities Under Epistemic and Physical Uncertainty
• Children's Thinking About Counterfactuals and Future Hypotheticals as Possibilities

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