Chinese children's scale error

Abstract

In this study, 22 children (including 16 girls) in one medium-scaled city in China have participated in 7 sub-tasks of the body task and 6 sub-tasks of the object task. Results show that by contrast Chinese children can better realize the scale difference between themselves and objective bodies and it is more difficult for them to realize the scale difference between objects and the influences of this difference on task performances. For Chinese children with younger age, their scale error increases with the increasing age and reaches the highest level on 26 months. Later, with the increasing age, the scale error decreases. On 40 months, there is no scale error and pretend starts to occur. In this study, there is no gender difference between children in two tasks.

Keywords

• los niños chinos
• el error del tamaño
• los actos fingidos
• conciencia del cuerpo