Question: where should you search for what you’ve never seen?

Children Use Abstract Information to Decide Where to Search

Watch the Talk: (BCCCD Conference, 2021)

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Lapidow, E., Goddu, M. K., & Walker, C. M. (2025). children’s developing ability to predict novel outcomes from variability information. Developmental psychology [ PDF ]

Question: Do Children Know when they don’t know?

Exploration Decisions & Confidence Judgements under Uncertainty

Watch the Talk: (Cognitive Science Society Conference, July 2020)

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Lapidow, E., Killeen, I., & Walker, C. M. (2022). Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers. Developmental Science, 00, 1-8 [ PDF ]

Question: Are Children naturally Good or Bad Scientists?

Revisiting the Evidence for Errors in Scientific Reasoning

Watch the Talk: (Cognitive Science Society Conference, July 2022)

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Lapidow, E. & Walker, C. M. (2022). Learners’ Causal Intuitions Explain Behavior In Control Of Variables Tasks. Developmental Psychology. Advance Online Publication [ PDF ]