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Peer reviewedKavanaugh, Robert, D.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Studied children's grasp of make-believe transformations they had seen enacted. Children indicated the pretend outcome by choosing a picture depicting no change or a picture depicting the pretend change. Older children chose correctly, even with the addition of a picture of an irrelevant transformation, but younger children did not. Autistic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Autism, Cognitive Development
