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

Table 3

Frequencies of reported cues (number of total observations in parentheses).

	Judgment	Reported cues
		aMovement	aContent	aSound	aGeneral	vMovement	vContent	vSound	vGeneral
Study 1: adults (895)	PP	0	3	0	0	261	86	92	7
	PR	17	7	3	3	2	0	0	0
	RP	1	0	0	0	28	9	5	1
	RR	282	39	26	14	5	1	2	1
Study 1: children (502)	PP	0	0	0	1	37	102	41	31
	PR	16	21	10	13	0	0	0	0
	RP	0	0	0	1	22	77	20	19
	RR	37	24	9	18	1	1	0	1
Study 2: children (617)	PP	1	0	1	0	68	105	73	25
	PR	20	13	8	7	0	0	0	0
	RP	2	0	1	0	19	64	32	10
	RR	95	42	15	16	0	0	0	0

PP: a pretense act judged as pretend; PR: a pretense act judged as real; RP: a real act judged as pretend; RR: a real act judged as real.