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Research on the Development of Preschooler’s Ability Judgement

LV Kai1, SANG Biao2, WU Ling-ling3   

  1. 1. School of Education, Jiannan University, Wuxi 214122;
    2. Department of Psychology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062;
    3. China Welfare Institute Nursery, Shanghai 200040
  • Online:2008-07-15 Published:2008-07-15

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Abstract: This study investigated the developmental trend of preschoolers judgement toward their own and others' abilities.Ss were 62 preschoolers between 3 and 6 who were all native Chinese from a kindergarten in Shanghai.They partic ipated in two tasks,that was,psychomotor task and memory task in which they were asked to predict their own and other children performance under different situations.The results demonstrated that the accuracy of preschoolers prediction toward their own or others' performance increases with age in both tasks and this development accelerates at about four.Preschoolers' judgement toward others abilities is not always more accurate than that toward their own.However,with the age increased,preschoolers tend to make more positive judgement toward their own abilities than toward others'.Most of the preschoolers can distinguish between expectation and wish though such distinguishment is hard to be detected when they are asked to make judgement toward their own abilities.

Key words: Preschooler, ability judgement, psychomotor task, memory task

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  • B844.1
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