Journal
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 146-155Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.01.003
Keywords
Pretend play; Normativity; Social cognition
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In two studies 3-year-olds' understanding of the context-specificity of normative rules was investigated through games of pretend play. In the first study, children protested against a character who joined a pretend game but treated the target object according to its real function. However, they did not protest when she performed the same action without having first joined the game. In the second study, children protested when the character mixed up an object's pretend identities between two different pretend games. However, they did not protest when she performed the same pretend action in its correct game context. Thus, the studies show that young children see the pretence-reality distinction, and the distinction between different pretence identities. as normative. More generally, the results of these studies demonstrate young children's ability to enforce normative rules in their pretence and to do so context-specifically. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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