Children understand subjective (undesirable) desires before they understand subjective (false) beliefs.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105268
Abstract: Our folk psychology is built around the ascription of beliefs (and related cognitive states) and desires (and related conative states). How and when children develop a concept of these different kinds of propositional attitudes has… read more here.
Keywords: children understand; subjective undesirable; understand subjective; undesirable desires ... See more keywords
Do children understand fraction addition?
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.12601
Abstract: Many children fail to master fraction arithmetic even after years of instruction. A recent theory of fraction arithmetic (Braithwaite, Pyke, & Siegler, 2017) hypothesized that this poor learning of fraction arithmetic procedures reflects poor conceptual… read more here.
Keywords: children understand; arithmetic procedures; fraction arithmetic; understand fraction ... See more keywords