What Shall We Do: Pretend or Real? Preschoolers' Choices and Parents' Perceptions

Autor/inn/en	Taggart, Jessica; Becker, Ian; Rauen, Julia; Al Kallas, Hala; Lillard, Angeline S.
Titel	What Shall We Do: Pretend or Real? Preschoolers' Choices and Parents' Perceptions
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 21 (2020) 2, S.261-281 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Taggart, Jessica)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2019.1709469
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Childrens Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Play; Gender Differences; Toys; Child Behavior; Preschools; Montessori Schools; Role Playing; Sex Role; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Elternverhalten; Spiel; Geschlechterkonflikt; Toy; Spielzeug; Montessori-Schule; Rollenspiel; Geschlechterrolle; Vorhersage
Abstract	Pretend play is common in childhood. Yet by age 4, children shown pretend and real activities in a book said they would choose to do the real activity over the pretend one. The present studies extended this research, examining children's actual behavior in laboratory and school settings (Study 1, n = 32, M = 59.32 months; and Study 2, n = 16, M = 54.08 months), their choices about pretend "roles" (Study 3, n = 50, M = 59.48 months), and parents' perspectives on what children prefer (Study 4, n = 83). As in prior work, 4-year-olds preferred real activities from a book; by 5, children also engaged more with real activities. In contrast, 3- to 4-year-olds preferred pretend roles and 5- to 6-year-olds were ambivalent. Parents correctly predicted children's preference for real activities, but they did not predict that children's reality preferences increase with age. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01