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Nora Swaboda 1, Azzurra Ruggeri 1,2,31 Max-Planck Institute for Human Development
2 School of Education, Technical University Munich
3 Central European UniversityPrevious research suggests that children’s information search remains largely inefficient until age four. Here, we investigate the early emergence of children’s information-search competence using a simplified version of Lindow’s (2021) “Finding Presents Game”. Participants (30- to 48-monhts olds) have to find a treasure hidden in one of three closed boxes. The boxes all have particular shapes, colours and images on their top. They are identical but for one feature (e.g., all boxes are red hexagons, but one has an apple, one a duck and one a star on them). To identify the target box, children receive three cards revealing either the target’s colour, shape or image, and all available variants of each feature on their backside (e.g., the shape card shows three hexagons, the colour card shows three red blobs, the icon card shows an apple, a duck and a star). The cards are placed frontside down in front of the children, who are allowed to flip one card before deciding which box to open. Crucially, as the boxes differ on only one feature (e.g., the image), only one card contains information relevant for the decision and should be revealed. Preliminary data suggest that 77% of children (N = 22) flip the relevant card suggesting that, at least in a highly simplified paradigm as ours, children as young as 2.5 years can efficiently search for information to guide their decision. Our findings highlight the importance of using age-appropriate paradigms to gain a more fine-grained picture of children’s emerging information-search abilities.
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