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Learning with Certainty in Childhood

2022-09-06

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<p>Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review develop-mental evidence that this metacognitive strategy does not require reportable processing. Uncertainty prompts non-verbal human infants and non-human animals to engage in strategies like seeking help, searching for additional information, or opting...

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Literature Corpus work: 9943565e-6fc9-5214-8701-8180a66a7acf
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ra8w4

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