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Understanding Pretense as Pretense.
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Wellman, Henry M.; Hickling, Anne K. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993
This commentary on the research reported in this monograph stresses the importance of the analogy between the processes involved in pretense comprehension and the processes required to comprehend written or spoken text. The commentary also raises the concern that children could perform correctly on pretense problems using processes of text…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Models, Pretend Play, Research Problems
Young Children's Understanding of Thought Bubbles and of Thoughts.
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Wellman, Henry M.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Four studies explored preschoolers' understanding of thought bubbles depicted in cartoons. Few three- and four-year olds knew what a thought-bubble depiction was without instruction, but if simply told that the thought bubble "shows what someone is thinking," the majority easily understood the devices as depicting thoughts generally and…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Preschool Children
Preschoolers' Understanding of Memory-relevant Variables
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Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1977
Three-, four- and five-year-old children were presented an array of metamemory tasks designed to test their understanding of variables which affect the difficulty of memory performance. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Memorization
Young Children's Understanding of Realities, Nonrealities, and Appearances.
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Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1990
Analysis of natural language data from children up to six years of age revealed that by the third year, children clearly distinguished between reality and a variety of nonreal contrasts in their everyday speech. An experimental study in which children were questioned about the reality and appearance of a variety of items confirmed findings of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Infants
Understanding of Mental Processes: A Developmental Study of "Remember" and "Forget."
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Wellman, Henry M.; Johnson, Carl N. – Child Development, 1979
Assesses comprehension of the mental verbs "remember" and "forget" among three-, four-, five-, and seven-year-old children by having the child judge whether or not toy characters in different situations remembered or forgot. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Social Scripts and Developmental Patterns in Comprehension of Televised Narratives.
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Collins, W. Andrew; Wellman, Henry M. – Communication Research--An International Quarterly, 1982
Reaffirms previous findings that young viewers' representations of televised dramatic narratives are incomplete and disorganized, compared to older viewers' comprehension of these programs. Also demonstrates that the information younger children retain from programs was likely to reflect stereotyped actions and events, cued by isolated, familiar…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
The Mind's "I": Children's Conception of the Mind as an Active Agent.
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Wellman, Henry M.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994
Presents the results of three studies examining children's conception of the mind itself as an independent, active entity. Findings revealed a developing ability in children to interpret and produce statements personifying the mind and provided considerable evidence of children's movement toward a conception of the mind as an active agent…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes