Children's knowledge of the relation between intentional action and pretending |
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Authors: | David M. Sobel |
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Affiliation: | Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Box 1978, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States |
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Abstract: | Two experiments investigated preschoolers’ understanding of the relation between pretending and intentional action. In Experiment 1, both 3- and 4-year olds recognized that characters whose actions were intended as pretense were pretending. However, children also judged that characters whose actions gave them the appearance of an entity unintentionally were pretending to be that entity. In Experiment 2, 3-year olds reliably chose a character whose pretense actions were intentional as pretending over a character whose actions were guided by another intention. These data suggest that preschoolers have some understanding of the role of intentional action in pretense. |
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Keywords: | Pretense Intentionality Theory of mind |
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