Learning categorical information gives children a feeling of déjà vu

During development, children must learn both broad facts about the world (that dogs have four legs, for example) and information that is more specific (that the family dog is scared of snow). While research in developmental psychology suggests that young children should have an easier time learning specific, concrete facts, a new study reveals that they learn general facts so effortlessly that they often can’t tell that they learned anything new at all.

Read the complete article from the University of Illinois here: Learning categorical information gives children a feeling of déjà vu

The full text journal article can be found here: Children Show Heightened Knew-It-All-Along Errors When Learning New Facts About Kinds