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Development of Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction
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7 studies of the acquisition of knowledge about the appearance-reality distinction suggest the following course of development. Many 3-year-olds seem to possess little or no understanding of the distinction. They fail the simplest Appearance-Reality (AR) tasks and are unresponsive to efforts to teach them the distinction. Skill in solving simple AR tasks is highly correlated with skill in solving simple perceptual Perspective-taking (PT) tasks; this suggests the hypothesis that the ability to represent the selfsame stimulus in two different, seemingly incompatible ways may underlie both skills. Children of 6-7 years have acquired both skills but nevertheless find it very difficult to reflect on and talk about such appearance-reality concepts as "looks like," "really and truly," and "looks different from the way it really and truly is." In contrast, children of 11-12 years, and to an even greater degree college students, possess a substantial body of rich, readily accessible, and explicit knowledge in this area.
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- Flavell, J. H., Green, F. L., Flavell, E. R., Watson, M. W., & Campione, J. C.
- Venue
- Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1986
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- i
- ISSN
- 0037-976X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2045053893
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- 623
- References
- 43
- FWCI
- 12.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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