Measuring Children's Age Stereotyping Using a Modified Piagetian Conservation Task

Autor/inn/en	Kwong See, Sheree T.; Rasmussen, Carmen; Pertman, S. Quinn
Titel	Measuring Children's Age Stereotyping Using a Modified Piagetian Conservation Task
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 38 (2012) 3, S.149-165 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
DOI	10.1080/03601277.2010.515891
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Puppetry; Young Children; Older Adults; Stereotypes; Task Analysis; Age; Child Development; Young Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Puppenspiel; Frühe Kindheit; Älterer Erwachsener; Klischee; Aufgabenanalyse; Alter; Lebensalter; Kindesentwicklung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	We examined five-year-old-children's age stereotyping using a modified Piagetian conservation task. Children were asked if two lines of objects were the "same" after one line had been made longer (transformed). A conversational account posits that children's answers reflect assumptions about the asker's motivation for the question (Schwarz, 1996). We reasoned that when asked by a young adult (puppet Experiment 1, experimenter Experiment 2) children would assume the question is to ascertain if they have noted a perceptual change and would provide answers focused on the change (length). If older adults are assumed to be in decline because of negative age stereotyping, however, children may assume an older adult (puppet, experimenter) is seeking clarification about line equality and would, therefore, give responses focused on the similarity of the lines (number). The expectation that a focus on length or number should differ across puppet/experimenter conditions was supported in both experiments and provides behavioral evidence for children's old age stereotyping. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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