Table 6.

Mean Proportions of Category-based Predictions and Flexibility Judgments by Age, Target, and Property-type, Study 2

	6-year-olds		8-year-olds		10-year-olds
	Physical	Behavior	Physical	Behavior	Physical	Behavior
PREDICTIONS
Animal	.85** (.30)	.63 (.39)	.89**(.26)	.61 (.41)	.94**(.15)	.40 (.41)
Male	.92** (.18)	.79** (.34)	.85**(.29)	.61m (.37)	.93**(.14)	.51 (.42)
Female	1a (.00)	.77**(.29)	.85**(.28)	.55 (.44)	.79**(.31)	.22**(.38)
FLEXIBILITY
Animal	.15** (.30)	.37 (.40)	.11**(.26)	.39 (.41)	.06**(.15)	.60 (.41)
Male	.08** (.18)	.21**(.18)	.15**(.29)	.38m(.37)	.07**(.14)	.49 (.42)
Female	0a (.00)	.23**(.29)	.15**(.28)	.45 (.44)	.21**(.31)	.78**(.38)

Note. Standard deviations are provided in parentheses. Higher numbers for predictions mean higher numbers of birth category-based predictions; higher numbers for flexibility judgments mean increased flexibility. Mean proportions were compared to the proportion expected by chance (.5) in a series of one-sample t-tests

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^mp <.1

^asignificantly different from chance according to a binomial test, p < .001.