{"pk":28692,"title":"What is a good question asker better at? From no generalization, toovergeneralization, to adults-like selectivity across childhood","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Prior research showed that young children prefer to seek helpfrom actors who have demonstrated active learning compe-tence. What inferences do people make based on the abil-ity to search effectively, for example by asking informativequestions? This project explores across two experiments towhat extent adults and children (3- to 9-year-olds) general-ize the ability to ask informative questions to other abili-ties/characteristics. We presented participants with one mon-ster who always asked informative questions and one whoalways asked uninformative questions. Participants had tochoose which monster they thought was more likely to pos-sess/was better at 12 different characteristics/abilities. Our re-sults show a clear developmental trend. Three- and 4-year-olds draw unsystematic inferences from the monsters question-asking expertise. Five- and 6-year-olds identified the betterquestion asker as better at everything. Seven- to 9-year-oldsshowed adult-like response patterns, selectively associating theability to ask good questions to related characteristics/abilities.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"active learning; social cognition; question asking."}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rq9g8b3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Costanza","middle_name":"","last_name":"De Simone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Azzurra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ruggeri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28692/galley/18563/download/"}]}