Developmental psychology, 2004-01, Vol.40 (1), p.95-113
2004
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Mothers' Behavior Modifications During Pretense and Their Possible Signal Value for Toddlers
- Ist Teil von
- Developmental psychology, 2004-01, Vol.40 (1), p.95-113
- Ort / Verlag
- Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2004
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- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- An important issue for understanding early cognition is why very young children's real-world representations do not get confused by pretense events. One possible source of information for children is the pretender's behaviors. Pretender behaviors may vary systematically across real and pretend scenarios, perhaps signaling to toddlers to interpret certain events as not real. Pretender behaviors were examined in 2 experiments in which mothers were asked both to pretend to have a snack and really to have a snack with their 18-month-olds. Episodes were analyzed for condition differences in verbal and nonverbal behaviors, including smiling, looking, laughter, and functional movements. Reliable differences were found across conditions for several variables. In a 3rd experiment, children's apparent understanding of pretense in relation to their mothers' behaviors was examined, and significant associations were found with some of the mothers' behavioral changes but not others. This work provides a first inroad into the issue of how children learn to interpret pretense acts as pretense.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0012-1649eISSN: 1939-0599DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.1.95Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3334333
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- Schlagworte
- Attention, Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Therapy, Behaviour modification, Biological and medical sciences, Child development, Cognition, Cognitive Development, Comparative analysis, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Cues, Developmental psychology, Fantasy, Female, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Human, Humans, Imagination, Infant, Infant Development, Infants, Inferences, kinesics, language, Learning, Male, Mother Child Communication, mother-child interaction, Mother-Child Relations, Mother-Infant interactions, Motherhood, Mothers, Newborn. Infant, Nonverbal Communication, paralinguistics, Parent Influence, Play and Playthings, Preschool children, Pretend play, pretense, Psychology, Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry, Psychology. Psychophysiology, Reality, Reality Testing, Skills, Smiling, Social behaviour, Speech Acoustics, Toddlers, Verbal Behavior, World beliefs