Children's questions: a mechanism for cognitive development.

By Michael Chouinard. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2007

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Science Interests in Preschool Boys and Girls: Relations to Later Self-Concept and Science Achievement. (2013, background): “Parents also engage their child in supportive conversations around their child’s interest (Callanan & Oakes, 1992; Callanan & Jipson, 2001; Chouinard, 2007).”
Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development (2018, background): “Analyses by Chouinard (2007) demonstrate that, like infants and toddlers, preschoolers are persistent in their requests for information: They continue to ask a question when they do not receive an informative reply.”
Online Learning of Objects through Curiosity-Driven Active Learning (2021, background): “This learning process is extremely efﬁcient, the child only asks about the information he/she is missing and the teacher does not have to answer unnecessary questions [3].”
Children's Need to Know: Curiosity in Schools (2011, background): “Just as the children in the studies of Tiz-ard and Hughes (1984) and Chouinard (2007) asked questions about things that went beyond the ordinary, the practical, and the obvious, students in our research also seem drawn to the invisible and the exotic.”
How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “(Chouinard 2007) and monitor informants’ responses to their questions, often restating their questions or providing their own explanations when given unsatisfactory explanations (Frazier et al.”
Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “Another important way in which children play an active role in this process is by eliciting testimony by means of questions (Chouinard 2007).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “…is that people ask questions about events or properties that violate their expectations (Isaacs, 1930; Sully, 1900; see alsoBerlyne, 1954; Chouinard, 2007) or concern abnormal events Isaacs, 1990; Hilton & Slugoski, 1986; see alsoBerlyne, (p. 266) Page 11 of 32 PRINTED FROM OXFORD…”
Learning Novel Objects Continually Through Curiosity (2021, background): “This learning process is extremely efficient, the child only asks about the information he/she is missing and the teacher does not have to answer unnecessary questions [3].”
Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood (2020, background): “Children begin asking questions before the age of two, and the proportion of questions that are explanationseeking increases with development, peaking around age three [93].”
The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning. (2016, background): “Indeed, children begin to do just that, starting in the 2nd year of life (Chouinard, 2007).”
Question Asking as Program Generation (2017, background): “A human child might ask “Do all dogs have long tails?” or “What is the difference between cats and dogs?” [2].”