Three-year-old children show strong spontaneous interest in story-form recitals of their own daily activities¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q1
Currency · newest study 1922 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Three-year-olds were observed to be intensely interested in hearing the events of their own day recounted in story form, even though adults find the same content humdrum. → A. I. G.; H. O. R 1922

Evidence¶

A. I. G.; H. O. R 1922¶

A. I. G.; H. O. R. (1922). New Publications. The Journal of Educational Psychology, pp. 186-187. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Educational_Psychology

q1 · i? · qualitative · r?

The reviewer reports, from Mitchell and colleagues' close observation of children at the City and Country School, that "3-year-olds simply revelled in the mere recital in story form" of daily events. No systematic data are printed; this is the reviewer's descriptive report.

"You would find, for example, that 3-year-olds simply revelled in the mere recital in story form of the, to them, exciting things of the day, but to us the humdrum routine of life."

Discussion¶

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