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Peer reviewedInagaki, Kayoko; Hatano, Giyoo – Child Development, 1987
Results of two experiments on kindergarten children in Japan indicate that young children can, and often do, apply personification as an analogy to animate objects to generate a reasonable prediction. It was also found that children try to constrain the personification by using additional knowledge. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
