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Slaughter, Virginia; Gopnik, Alison – Child Development, 1996
Three-year olds who failed a false-belief pretest were trained in two groups on either the concept of belief or the concepts of desire and perception. Both groups showed improved performance on a false-belief posttest compared to a control group trained on number conservation. Results were interpreted as demonstrating coherence in children's…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Intuition, Perception, Pretests Posttests