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The Role of Creative Control and Culture in Children's Fantasy/Reality Judgments
Author(s) -
Taylor Marjorie
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01977.x
Subject(s) - fantasy , psychology , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , content (measure theory) , control (management) , reality testing , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , cognition , literature , programming language , art , paleontology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , management , neuroscience , computer science , economics , biology
Young children's ability to differentiate fantasy from reality has been seriously underestimated because of methodological problems and overgeneralization from children's performance in situations in which they had no control over the content of the fantasy and/or were presented with misleading information. It is important to keep in mind that there are many types of fantasy‐reality distinctions, and that cultural context plays an important role in the interpretation given to children's activities.