Recency Tendency: Responses to Forced-Choice Questions
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Recency Tendency: Responses to Forced-Choice Questions
The present study was conducted to investigate whether forced-choice questions would lead to any particular tendency in young children’s responses. Two experiments were conducted in which 3to 5-year-olds children were shown a short animation and then were asked a set of two-option, forced-choice questions. Consistent findings were obtained: (i) Forced-choice questions influenced children’s resp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0888-4080
DOI: 10.1002/acp.3119