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Peer reviewedSlaughter, Virginia – Child Development, 1998
Two studies demonstrated dissociation between preschoolers' understanding of pictorial and mental representations. Results showed that false picture tasks were significantly easier than false belief tasks. There was no correlation between performance on the two. Children were trained on false belief, false picture, or number conservation tasks;…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept)
