Children's Selective Trust in Speakers

Children's selective trust in speakers shows how young learners decide whose testimony to believe. Children often learn through direct observation and exploration, but many facts cannot be seen firsthand. In those cases, they rely on other people as information sources.

Children ask many question...

Children are notorious for asking questions about the world around them, but with limited means of accessing the answers, they must rely on others to answer their questions.

On one hand, people often think that children believe everything they hear is true?like when they are told to brush their teeth every night or else, their teeth will f...