Can I Reach That Sticker? Preschoolers' Practical Judgments about Their Own and Others' Body Size

Autor/inn/en	Dunphy-Lelii, Sarah; Hooley, Merrilyn; McGivern, Lisa; Skouteris, Helen; Cox, Rachael
Titel	Can I Reach That Sticker? Preschoolers' Practical Judgments about Their Own and Others' Body Size
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 15 (2014) 4, S.584-598 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2013.797905
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Age Differences; Human Body; Body Height; Body Composition; Comparative Analysis; Self Concept; Child Care Centers; Foreign Countries; Preschool Education; Measurement; Body Weight; Guessing (Tests); Perception; Visual Stimuli; Accuracy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Menschlicher Körper; Körpergröße; Selbstkonzept; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Ausland; Messverfahren; Körpergewicht; Erraten; Wahrnehmung; Australien
Abstract	Research to date has focused mostly on children's representation of their physical self as a prelude to the development of a theory of mind (ToM) and on their understanding of the self as distinct from others over time. Whether children approaching the well-known age of ToM mastery are also accurately appraising their own "body's" functional relationship to the everyday environment remains largely an unanswered question. Little work has investigated typical preschool-age children's explicit accuracy when making judgments about their own body's proportions. In the current study, 98 preschoolers made 16 practical judgments about whether their own body or an experimenter's body could fit through an apparatus (half of the apparatuses were 30% smaller than the body in question, and half were 30% larger). Overall, accuracy increased with age but was unrelated to body size. Children in all age groups performed above chance, and accuracy did not differ depending on target (e.g., self or other). Children in a comparison condition judging fit of inanimate objects (n = 23) performed similarly, though showed less evidence of "yes" bias, and there were no age-based differences in accuracy. Results are discussed with regard to preschoolers' developing body awareness, as are implications for research protocols in which children are asked to accurately identify their own body size and shape from an array. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10