Child development

Children's understanding of the stream of consciousness.

Child development April 1, 1993 J H Flavell, F L Green, E R Flavell

Children and adults were tested for their understanding that there is a virtually continuous flow of mental content in a waking person, a "stream of consciousness" that continues to run even when the person is not examining stimuli perceptually or trying to solve a problem. There was a marked increase with age from preschool to adulthood in subjects' tendency to say that a person who was just...