title: Parental reports of children's scale errors in everyday life.
abstract: Scale errors refer to behaviors where young children attempt to perform an action on an object that is too small to effectively accommodate the behavior. The goal of this study was to examine the frequency and characteristics of scale errors in everyday life. To do so, the researchers collected parental reports of children's (age range = 13-21 months at onset) scale errors over a 6-month period. All but 1 of the parents (N = 30) reported at least 1 scale error with an average of 3.2 scale errors per child. These results suggest that most, if not all, children commit scale errors during early childhood.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. k-rosengren@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Karl S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Rosengren
authors.forename: Isabel T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Kathy N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Stevie S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Schein
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D049628:Body Size; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012737:Sex Factors; D012858:Size Perception