An Exploratory Study of Curiosity in Three-, Four- and Five-Year-Old Children
Description:
This study investigated the development of curiosity in young children. A previous study by Kreitler, Zigler, and Kreitler had identified five specific types of curiosity, manipulatory curiosity, perceptual curiosity, conceptual curiosity, curiosity about the complex, and adjustive-reactive curiosity. The basic problem was to describe the development of these five types of curiosity in three-, four-, and five-year-old children. A secondary problem was to determine if children follow a predictab…
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Date:
May 1985
Creator:
Foote, Martha M. (Martha McNew)