Factors affecting Korean preschoolers’ evidential reasoning: Trust in testimony and understanding of evidential markers (학령전기 아동의 증언판별, 증거성표지 이해와 정보확실성 판단 능력 발달)

Youngon Choi (최영은); 장나영; 이화인

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

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2012, 25(1), pp.135-152
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Youngon Choi ¹, 장나영 ¹, 이화인 ¹

¹중앙대학교

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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.

KEYWORDS

language development, evidnetials, trust in testimony, information certainty, cognitive development, Korean

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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