Informant’s Age can Trump Accuracy in Selective Trust in Korean 5-year-olds but not in 4-year-olds

Cultural divergence in children's selective word learning: Korean and Canadian children differ in their trust of adult informants

“…The same visual stimuli from Beom and Choi (2020), featuring pictures of a young girl and a female adult wearing matching T-shirts, were used. The accuracy demonstration phase involved presenting pictures of four familiar objects: a car, a cup, a clock, and shoes.…”

“…The procedure mirrored Beom and Choi (2020) session was recorded for later coding. A child typically sat beside or in front of their parents.…”

“…The sample size of Canadian 5-year-olds matched those of Beom and Choi (2020). In Beom and Choi (2020), 48…”

“…We aim to directly test whether the Korean 5-year-olds' trust in the inaccurate adult can be attributed to socio-cultural values and practices. In Experiment 1, we tested 5-year-old Canadian children to compare their selective learning patterns with those of Korean 5-year-olds in Beom and Choi (2020). The present study used the same task to make the data as comparable as possible between the two studies.…”

“…Based on the findings in Tong et al (2020), we hypothesized Canadian 5-year-olds would endorse a more accurate child informant's label than a less accurate adult's label. We then descriptively compared Canadian children's and Beom and Choi's (2020) Korean 5-year-olds' endorsement tendency. As described above, since children in Western countries, like Canada, and Asian countries, like Korea, interact with and learn from others differently, we expected Canadian and Korean children's endorsement patterns would differ.…”