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judgments varied more significantly as a function of affect toward peers than those of entity
theorists, and their integration of peer’s positive and negative behaviors was more comprehensive
as well.
2063.28 Conversational awareness: A study with 3 to 6 year old Brazilian children,
Maria-regina Maluf 1 , Michel Deleau 2 , Sara Panciera 1 , Anegreice Valério 3 , Simone
Domingues 3 , 1 Universidade De São Paulo; 2 Université De Rennes II, France; 3 Pontifícia
Universidade Católica De São Paulo, Brazil
The experience of conversational practices lead to awareness of social conventions and rules that
govern conversation in our social environment. Understanding this can help to comprehend some
important sociocognitive processes. The objectives of this study were: a) to adapt to the Brazilian
cultural context an instrument to assess the understanding of implicit rules in conversational acts;
b) to evaluate the influence of the age and culture in this domain. 202 children from three to six
year old were examined. The results showed significant differences related to age and
sociocultural context. Considerations were made for improvement of the data collection
instrument.
2063.29 Research on features of divergent thinking development of children aged 3-7, Xiao-ying
Wang, Yan Yang, Lin Li, Northeast Normal University, China
The present study examined divergent thinking development in 193 preschoolers. Individual tests
were employed to investigate 5 aspects: sign, usage, imagination, operation and problem-solving.
The result indicated: 1. Children’s divergent thinking development showed significant age
difference and tended to increase gradually with children's age; 2. Children's divergent thinking
did not advance uniformly in speed during its tenor. The turning-period was about 5 years old; 3.
In general, there was no significant sex difference in children’s divergent thinking development.
However, boys showed superior on the uniqueness with their age; 4. There was significant
individual difference in children’s divergent thinking development.
2063.30 Children’s attribution about prosocial behavior, Cuiying Fan 1 , Zongkui Zhou 2 ,
1 2
Jianghan University, China; Central China Normal University, China
Two experiments were conducted to investigate Chinese children’s attribution about other’s
prosocial behavior. 80 Subjects were asked to answer questions after listening to stories of
classmates’ helping in different situations. Results indicated that Chinese children began to use
discounting principle from the age of 5 to 6 (kindergarten), and reached a full-function level of
attribution at the age of 8 (second grade). Among a variety of behavior causes, actors who helped
out of no reason, empathy, and helping norm were attributed most intrinsic motivated to help.
Implications of these results were discussed in terms of developmental and cultural differences.
2063.31 Development of ability to understand others’ emotions in preschool children, Makiko
Hayashi, Hosen Junior College, Japan
This study examined whether preschoolers change their reaction patterns according to the number
of people in communication situations and whether the skillfulness in these patterns develop with
their age. 72 children were presented six short stories and pictures, then asked to infer the
character's emotion. Six short stories were classified into two kinds of communication
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