What Makes an Act a Pretense One? Young Children’s Pretend-Real Judgments and Explanations

Table 2

Mean proportion of correct judgments.

	N	Pretense acts		Real acts		Overall
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Study 1
Adults	55	.90**	.130	.87**	.130	.88**	.107
Children	44	.74**	.229	.46	.340	.61**	.160
Study 2
Children	39	.83**	.186	.53	.332	.68**	.147

^∗∗𝑃<.001 as compared to chance (.50).