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Peer reviewedRichards, D. Dean; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 1984
By varying task requirements within a common procedural framework, four experiments established conditions under which children exhibit different understandings of life. Overall, results suggested that even four- and five-year-olds know that people and other animals are alive and that almost all "inanimate objects" are not. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, College Students, Comprehension
