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The methods used involved a female experimenter who asked the children to help her remember who might have known more about toys and foods. More specifically, the questions about the toys concerned such things as what a specific toy is used for; the questions about foods concerned things such as what kinds of foods might be good for you. In another component of the tests, the children were prompted with additional information suggesting that the child or the adult might be more knowledgeable about a specific topic, such as where the food is another child's favorite while the adult has never seen that food before or where the adult has played with the toy but the child has never seen it before.
Findings and Conclusions
According to the research findings, there was no difference...
All of the children indicated that adults would know more about foods than children, and that children would ordinarily know more about the toys than adults. However, all of the children were able to understand that specific familiarity with foods on the part of children or with toys on the part of the adults was more important than the age of the informant. If prompted that the adult had never seen the food but that the child liked it, the subjects selected the child as the preferred informant despite a general preference for adult informants about foods. Likewise, despite a general preference for child informants about toys, when prompted that only the adult had played with the toy, the subjects preferred the adult informants.
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