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My youngest child, now just over a year old, has started to talk. Even though Ive experienced this process with my older two, its absolutely thrilling. He is putting words to the thoughts that swirl around in his sweet little head, making his mind a little less mysterious to the rest of us.<\/p>\n

But these early words may not mean what we think they mean, a new study hints. Unsurprisingly, when 2-year-olds were asked a series of \u201cthis or that\u201d questions, the toddlers showed strong preferences \u2014 but not for the reasons youd think. Overwhelmingly, the toddlers answered the questions with the last choice given.<\/p>\n

That bias, described in PLOS ONE<\/em> on June 12, suggests that young childrens answers to these sorts of questions dont actually reflect their desires. Instead, kids may simply be echoing the last thing they heard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This verbal quirk can be used by parents to great effect, as the researchers point out in the title of their paper: \u201cCake or broccoli?\u201d More fundamentally, the results raise questions about what sort of information a verbal answer actually pulls out of a young childs mind. This murkiness is especially troublesome when it comes to questions whose answers call for adult action, such as: \u201cDid you hit your sister on purpose or on accident?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first series of experiments, researchers led by Emily Sumner at the University of California, Irvine, asked 24 1- and 2-year-olds a bunch of two-choice questions, some of which involved a polar bear named Rori or a grizzly bear named Quinn. One question, for example, was, \u201cDoes Rori live in an igloo or a tepee?\u201d Later, the researchers switched the bear and the order of the options, asking, for example, \u201cDoes Quinn live in a tepee or an igloo?\u201d<\/p>\n

The toddlers could answer either verbally or, for reluctant speakers, by pointing at one of two stickers that showed the choices. When the children answered the questions by pointing, they chose the second option about half the time, right around chance. But when the toddlers spoke their answers, they chose the second option 85 percent of the time, regardless of the bear.<\/p>\n

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SECOND BEST <\/strong>A toddler taking part in a study selects the second option in three either-or questions. This tendency, called the recency bias, may reflect kids inability to juggle several choices in their minds simultaneously. Credit: E. Sumner <\/em>et al\/PLOS ONE 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

This abundance of second options selected \u2014 a habit known as the recency bias \u2014 might be due to the fact that young children have trouble holding the first option in mind, the researchers suspect. Other experiments showed that childrens tendency toward the second option got stronger when the Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a>
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