What is it for? How question wording influences young children's response to questions about natural phenomena.

Abstract Little attention has been given to how young children reason about scientific concepts, current research indicates that children from around 3-years-old to 8-years-old reason about natural objects in a teleological manner: the belief that an entity or object has a specific purpose...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halls, Jonathan
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28121/