Older, not younger, children learn more false facts from stories Export

@article{citeulike:2246188, abstract = {Early school-aged children listened to stories that contained correct and incorrect facts. All ages answered more questions correctly after having heard the correct fact in the story. Only the older children, however, produced story errors on a later general knowledge test. Source errors did not drive the increased suggestibility in older children, as they were better at remembering source than were the younger children. Instead, different processes are involved in learning correct and incorrect facts from fictional sources. All ages benefited from hearing correct answers because they activated a pre-existing semantic network. Older children, however, were better able to form memories of the misinformation and thus showed greater suggestibility on the general knowledge test.}, author = {Fazio, Lisa K. and Marsh, Elizabeth J.}, citeulike-article-id = {2246188}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.012}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027707001199}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T24-4NVK1X4-2/2/7624ab7bea879001d7e831bc38da253f}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.012}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {deference, folk\_epistemology}, month = {February}, number = {2}, pages = {1081--1089}, posted-at = {2008-01-17 16:08:03}, priority = {3}, title = {Older, not younger, children learn more false facts from stories}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.012}, volume = {106}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2246188 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2246188 N2 - Early school-aged children listened to stories that contained correct and incorrect facts. All ages answered more questions correctly after having heard the correct fact in the story. Only the older children, however, produced story errors on a later general knowledge test. Source errors did not drive the increased suggestibility in older children, as they were better at remembering source than were the younger children. Instead, different processes are involved in learning correct and incorrect facts from fictional sources. All ages benefited from hearing correct answers because they activated a pre-existing semantic network. Older children, however, were better able to form memories of the misinformation and thus showed greater suggestibility on the general knowledge test. IS - 2 JF - Cognition EP - 1089 TI - Older, not younger, children learn more false facts from stories VL - 106 SP - 1081 KW - deference KW - folk_epistemology AU - Fazio, Lisa AU - Marsh, Elizabeth PY - 2008/02// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.012 ER -