Is It Real or Is It Fiction? Children's Bias toward Reality

Autor/inn/en	Martarelli, Corinna S.; Mast, Fred W.
Titel	Is It Real or Is It Fiction? Children's Bias toward Reality
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 14 (2013) 1, S.141-153 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2011.638685
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Adults; Fantasy; Realism; Patterned Responses; Classification; Child Development; Age Differences; Cognitive Development; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Elementary School Students; Pictorial Stimuli; Familiarity; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Fantasie; Realismus; Antwortbogen; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Kindesentwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kognitive Entwicklung; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fantasieanregung; Schweiz
Abstract	Children aged 3 to 8 years old and adults were tested on a reality–fantasy distinction task. They had to judge whether particular entities were real or fantastical, and response times were collected. We further manipulated whether the entity is a specific character or a generic fantastical entity. The results indicate that children, unlike adults, show a tendency to err by judging fantastical entities as real (response bias toward reality). All children were significantly slower when categorizing fantastical stimuli compared with real stimuli. We conclude that the process of classifying items into real versus fantastical categories develops at least until children are 7 to 8 years old. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10