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The Development of Children's Understanding of the Appearance-Reality Distinction Between How People Look and What They Are Really Like

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Vol. 38, No. 4 (October 1992)

, pp. 513-524 (12 pages)

Published By: Wayne State University Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23087325

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Abstract

Children of 3 to 5 years of age were tested for their understanding that people's real and apparent moral character can differ. In each of four tasks, the subject heard a story about a child's behavior (mean or nice) while seeing a photograph of that child with a neutral expression. A second photograph portrayed the same child "after an operation" that gave the child an appearance which was in opposition to his behavior (nice or mean). This appearance and the child's behavior were restated and then appearance and reality questions were asked. Consistent with previous appearance-reality research, younger preschoolers had significantly more difficulty than older ones did with this socially important instance of the appearance-reality distinction.

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This internationally acclaimed periodical features empiricaland theoretical papers on child development and family-child relationships. Ahigh-quality resource for researchers, writers, teachers, and practitioners,the journal contains up-to-date information on advances in developmentalresearch on infants, children, adolescents, and families; summaries andintegrations of research; commentaries by experts; and reviews of important newbooks in development.

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Development of Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Vol. 51, No. 1, Development of Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction (1986)

, pp. i+iii+v+1-87 (90 pages)

Published By: Wiley

https://doi.org/10.2307/1165866

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1165866

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7 studies of the acquisition of knowledge about the appearance-reality distinction suggest the following course of development. Many 3-year-olds seem to possess little or no understanding of the distinction. They fail the simplest Appearance-Reality (AR) tasks and are unresponsive to efforts to teach them the distinction. Skill in solving simple AR tasks is highly correlated with skill in solving simple perceptual Perspective-taking (PT) tasks; this suggests the hypothesis that the ability to represent the selfsame stimulus in two different, seemingly incompatible ways may underlie both skills. Children of 6-7 years have acquired both skills but nevertheless find it very difficult to reflect on and talk about such appearance-reality concepts as "looks like," "really and truly," and "looks different from the way it really and truly is." In contrast, children of 11-12 years, and to an even greater degree college students, possess a substantial body of rich, readily accessible, and explicit knowledge in this area.

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Since 1936 this series has presented in-depth research studies and significant findings in child development and its related disciplines. Each issue consists of a single study or a group of papers on a single theme, accompanied usually by commentary and discussion. Like all SRCD publications, the Monographs enable development specialists from many disciplines to share their data, techniques, research methods, and conclusions.

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