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Marjorie Taylor, Bonnie M. Esbensen, Robert T. Bennett, Children's Understanding of Knowledge Acquisition: The Tendency for Children to Report That They Have Always Known What They Have Just Learned, Child Development, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Dec., 1994), pp. 1581-1604
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