Are Children Sensitive to What They Know?: An Insight from Yucatec Mayan Children

What children do in spite of what they know.

New studies support the hypothesis that young children have basic cognitive capacities but utilize them inefficiently; older children aid these capacities with generally valid cognitive heuristics which produce poor performance on critical problems.

Understanding Personal Practical Knowledge; From what teachers must know to what teachers already know

The purpose of this study is understanding the Personal Practical Knowledge (PPK) of teachers which has been done through qualitative method. Understanding PPK helps us to understand why teachers act in a specific way. In this regards, reflecting on their personal and professional narratives also help to improve their practice. This study was conducted along with 13 teachers in a non-profit pri...

When children ask, "What is it?" what do they want to know about artifacts?

When children ask, "What is it?" are they seeking information about what something is called or what kind of thing it is? To find out, we gave 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds (32 at each age) the opportunity to inquire about unfamiliar artifacts. An ambiguous question was answered with a name or with functional information, depending on the group to which the children were assigned. Children were incli...

Do researchers know what they are doing?

Are what people know about their epilepsy and what they want from an epilepsy service related?

This study set out to investigate the level of knowledge about epilepsy in general and in relation to the patients' own condition, in patients attending a tertiary referral epilepsy outpatient clinic. It also sought to investigate patient satisfaction with the service and whether knowledge acquired about epilepsy related to that satisfaction. Seventy out of 94 patients responded to the Epilepsy...