What Children Do in Spite of What They Know
SciencePublished 22 November 1968
Thomas G. Bever, Jacques Mehler, Joyce S. Epstein, Harry Beilin
Citations70
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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New studies support the hypothesis that young children have basic cognitive capacities but utilize them inefficiently; older children aid these capacities with generally valid cognitive heuristics which produce poor performance on critical problems.
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Psychology
ScienceCognitive Capacity of Very Young Children
280 Citations1967Jacques Mehler, Thomas G. Bever
The discriminative ability of the younger children shows that the logical capacity for cognitive operations exists earlier than previously acknowledged.
International Journal of PsychologyTHE STUDY OF COMPETENCE IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY1
41 Citations1968Jacques Mehler, Thomas G. Bever