TITLE:
A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of Small-Sized Supporting Objects on Children Behavior
AUTHORS:
Linlin He, Jinfu Zhang, Xiaochun Xu
KEYWORDS:
Children, Scale Error, Pretend, Supporting Object, Target Object
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
12,
2015
ABSTRACT: In this study, a preliminary test on 22
Chinese children was conducted. After 11 months, 11 children were successfully
re-tested. The results indicated that, whether in body task or object task,
children made more scale errors and acts of refusal without reason in the
pre-test. Compared with the pre-test, children in the post-test were fully
aware of the size of supporting objects, were more likely to refuse with
reason, and made active pretending behaviors.