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Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence
The present study examined whether three‐year‐old children (age = 42–48 months, n = 57; 31 boys) understand that object identities stipulated during pretend play could only be known by people witnessing the stipulation. Children participated in pretend scenarios that included some objects and two ex...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35531952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12417 |
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author | Andrási, Krisztina Schvajda, Réka Király, Ildikó |
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description | The present study examined whether three‐year‐old children (age = 42–48 months, n = 57; 31 boys) understand that object identities stipulated during pretend play could only be known by people witnessing the stipulation. Children participated in pretend scenarios that included some objects and two experimenters. Two pretend episodes corresponded to an object: one connected to its conventional function, the other to a pretend identity made‐up on the spot. These episodes happened either in the presence or absence of the other person. In the test phase, this experimenter expressed an intention to do something with an object and asked for a ‘missing’ prop. The prediction was that in case she was present previously, children would be more likely to select the prop corresponding to a pretence stipulation, compared to when she was absent. The results confirmed this pattern: in the absent condition, 68.42% of the participants chose the prop connected to the conventional use of the object, while 31.58% chose the prop corresponding to its identity stipulated in pretend play. It seems that preschool aged children refrain from generalizing their knowledge about the pretend identity of an object, in case their interactive partner could not know of this identity. |
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spelling | pubmed-95450262022-10-14 Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence Andrási, Krisztina Schvajda, Réka Király, Ildikó Br J Dev Psychol Articles The present study examined whether three‐year‐old children (age = 42–48 months, n = 57; 31 boys) understand that object identities stipulated during pretend play could only be known by people witnessing the stipulation. Children participated in pretend scenarios that included some objects and two experimenters. Two pretend episodes corresponded to an object: one connected to its conventional function, the other to a pretend identity made‐up on the spot. These episodes happened either in the presence or absence of the other person. In the test phase, this experimenter expressed an intention to do something with an object and asked for a ‘missing’ prop. The prediction was that in case she was present previously, children would be more likely to select the prop corresponding to a pretence stipulation, compared to when she was absent. The results confirmed this pattern: in the absent condition, 68.42% of the participants chose the prop connected to the conventional use of the object, while 31.58% chose the prop corresponding to its identity stipulated in pretend play. It seems that preschool aged children refrain from generalizing their knowledge about the pretend identity of an object, in case their interactive partner could not know of this identity. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-09 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9545026/ /pubmed/35531952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12417 Text en © 2022 The Authors. British Journal of Developmental Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Articles Andrási, Krisztina Schvajda, Réka Király, Ildikó Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title | Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title_full | Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title_fullStr | Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title_full_unstemmed | Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title_short | Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
title_sort | young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35531952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12417 |
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