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A child's grasp of elementary physics (conservation laws, for example) normally improves during Piaget's preoperational stage. Many adults, however, nevertheless retain a set of incorrect assumptions about motion and matter—what psychologists sometimes refer to as "intuitive physics." Julien is 5 years old. When asked to describe the trajectory a chess piece would follow as it spun off a revolving circular table, Julien answers that it would follow a curved trajectory (an answer inconsistent with Newton's first law of motion). What other misconceptions about the physical world might Julien be likely to retain past the age of 10?
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O87-intuitivephysics.html
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Beyonce, who is working in a prosecutor's office for her senior internship, has been asked to write a memo on the suggestibility of child witnesses and how likely a jury is to believe a child's testimony in court cases. How can she find information for the memo that provides research-based facts as well as guidelines for dealing with child witnesses that will be helpful for the prosecutors?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/readings/childwitnesses.html





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