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Tessa J P van Schijndel

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van Schijndel T, Jansen B
J Exp Child Psychol . 2025 Jan; 252:106168. PMID: 39799780
Epistemic curiosity is considered indispensable in children's learning, but previous empirical research on children's curiosity-driven learning has been fragmented; separate research lines tend to focus on single learning outcomes. Therefore,...
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Franse R, van Schijndel T, Raijmakers M
Front Psychol . 2020 Jun; 11:1047. PMID: 32587544
Effective interaction and inquiry are an essential source for children's learning about science in an informal context. This study investigated the effect of parental pre-knowledge on parent-child interactions (manipulations, parent...
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van Bers B, van Schijndel T, Visser I, Raijmakers M
J Exp Child Psychol . 2020 Feb; 193:104809. PMID: 32062406
The current project studied the direct, near transfer, and far transfer effects of cognitive flexibility training in two experiments with 117 3-year-olds. In both Experiments 1 and 2, children performed...
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van Schijndel T, van Es S, Franse R, van Bers B, Raijmakers M
Front Psychol . 2018 Oct; 9:1835. PMID: 30327627
Children's thinking about prenatal development requires reasoning about change that cannot be observed directly. How do children gain knowledge about this topic? Do children have mental models or is their...
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van Schijndel T, Huijpen K, Visser I, Raijmakers M
PLoS One . 2018 Apr; 13(4):e0195019. PMID: 29608583
This study investigated the development of young children's causal inference by studying variability in behavior. Two possible sources of variability, strategy use and accuracy in strategy execution, were discriminated and...
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van Schijndel T, Visser I, van Bers B, Raijmakers M
J Exp Child Psychol . 2014 Dec; 131:104-19. PMID: 25544394
This study investigated the effect of evidence conflicting with preschoolers' naive theory on the patterns of their free exploratory play. The domain of shadow size was used--a relatively complex, ecologically...
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Bonawitz E, van Schijndel T, Friel D, Schulz L
Cogn Psychol . 2012 Feb; 64(4):215-34. PMID: 22365179
We look at the effect of evidence and prior beliefs on exploration, explanation and learning. In Experiment 1, we tested children both with and without differential prior beliefs about balance...
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van Bers B, Visser I, van Schijndel T, Mandell D, Raijmakers M
Dev Sci . 2011 Sep; 14(5):960-71. PMID: 21884312
A widely used paradigm to study cognitive flexibility in preschoolers is the Dimensional Change Card Sorting (DCCS) task. The developmental dynamics of DCCS performance was studied in a cross-sectional design...
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Poletiek F, van Schijndel T
Psychon Bull Rev . 2009 Dec; 16(6):1058-64. PMID: 19966255
Adults and children acquire knowledge of the structure of their environment on the basis of repeated exposure to samples of structured stimuli. In the study of inductive learning, a straightforward...