A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of Small-Sized Supporting Objects on Children Behavior

Linlin He^1,2, Jinfu Zhang^1,3, Xiaochun Xu⁴

¹Center for Studies of Education and Psychology of Ethnic Minorities, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
²School of Law, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
³School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
⁴Affiliated Kindergarten, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2015.66070                

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.

Keywords

Children, Scale Error, Pretend, Supporting Object, Target Object

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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