Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000-01, Vol.46 (1), p.21-44
2000
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- Titel
- Children's Understanding of the Animacy Constraint on Pretense
- Ist Teil von
- Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000-01, Vol.46 (1), p.21-44
- Ort / Verlag
- Detroit: Wayne State University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2000
- Quelle
- ERIC
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- There is controversy over how well children understand pretense. One possibility is that for young children, pretense is not a mental state but is merely an external manifestation. If so, young children would think inanimates can pretend, because inanimates can be like other entities. Four experiments tested this. When shown pictured items, 4-year-olds understood that only animates pretend, but 3-year-olds sometimes claimed that inanimates pretend. However, when shown the actual items, even 4-year-olds sometimes claimed that inanimates pretend. This was particularly the case when adults explicitly pointed out that the objects looked or acted like something else. Children's errors were fairly specific to pretense in that they did not tend to attribute thinking to inanimates.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0272-930XeISSN: 1535-0266Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_230103255
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adults, Age Differences, Age groups, Animacy, Animacy Inanimacy, Animate beings, Astaire, Fred (Frederick Austerlitz) (1899-1987), Automobiles, Beliefs, Child development, Child psychology, Children, Children & youth, Cognitive Development, Error Patterns, Experiments, Imitation, Mental representations, Mind, Monkeys & apes, Performance Factors, Preschool children, Pretend play, Psychological aspects, Psychology, Representational Competence, Representational Thinking, RESEARCH REPORTS, Symbolic play, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Vehicle performance, Vehicles, Verbs, Young Children