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Peer reviewedWoolley, Jacqueline D. – Developmental Review, 1995
Presents a framework within which to organize and synthesize existing knowledge about children's understanding of the mental states of imagination, pretense, and dreams. Concludes that by the age of three, children understand important fundamental aspects of the mental nature, origin, and truth-relation of fictional mental states, but that their…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
