Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Gopnik, Alison; Wilde Astington, Janet

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1988.tb03192.x

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Children's Understanding of Representational Change and Its Relation to the Understanding of False Belief and the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Published in Child Development • Feb 1, 1988

Authors:

Alison Gopnik

Janet Wilde Astington

Abstract

This research concerns the development of children's understanding of representational change and its relation to other cognitive developments. Children were shown deceptive objects, and the true nature of the objects was then revealed. Children were then asked what they thought the object was when ...

Subject

Psychology

Object (grammar)

Reality testing

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