Preschoolers' extension and export of information from realistic and fantastical stories (Study 1)

These studies investigate how children extend information within the context of fictional stories, how they export information from stories to reality, and whether these processes are affected by the story’s degree of realism. Preschool-aged children heard a story and judged whether events that happened at one point in that story could happen later in the story and could happen in real life.

本系列研究旨在探究儿童如何在虚构故事的语境中延伸信息，以及如何将故事中的信息迁移至现实场景，同时验证这些信息处理过程是否会受到故事真实感程度的影响。实验过程中，学龄前儿童会聆听一则故事，并需判断故事中某一节点出现的事件，是否能够在该故事的后续情节中发生，亦或是能够在现实生活中出现。