Abstract
Dalenberg, Bierman, and Furman suggest that kindergartners' failure to employ a discounting heuristic in previous studies may be a function of inadequate understanding of the questions asked of them. Using a methodology of questioning different from previous research, Dalenberg, et al. concluded that kindergartners do use the heuristic. However, review of their 1984 data indicates little support for that conclusion. While second graders and fourth graders increasingly used the heuristic, the data provided for kindergartners more fully support prior research in which such use was weak or entirely absent. It is concluded that real and often profound changes in social cognitive processing do occur between the ages of five and ten.
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