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ERIC Number: EJ367870
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction
Gopnik, Alison; Astington, Janet W.
Child Development, v59 n1 p26-37 Feb 1988
Concerns the development of children's understanding of representational change and its relation to other cognitive developments. Two experiments involve day care children, aged three, four, and five years. Results suggest that children begin to consider alternative representations of the same object at about age four. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Recognition (Psychology), Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Perceived Reality; Reality Research; Representational Competence