Toddlers tend to opt for the last thing in a set, so craft your questions carefully
Toddlers tend to opt for the last thing in a set, so craft your questions carefully
- July 10, 2019
- Emily Sumner, cog sci, in Science News, July 10, 2019
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In the first series of experiments, researchers led by Emily Sumner at the University
of California, Irvine, asked 24 1- and 2-year-olds a bunch of two-choice questions,
some of which involved a polar bear named Rori or a grizzly bear named Quinn. One
question, for example, was, “Does Rori live in an igloo or a tepee?” Later, the researchers
switched the bear and the order of the options, asking, for example, “Does Quinn live
in a tepee or an igloo?”
For the full story, please visit https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/toddlers-tend-opt-last-thing-set-so-craft-your-questions-carefully?tgt=nr.
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