Table 3.

Mean Numbers (and Standard Deviations) of Verbatim, Constructive, and Fantastic Propositions Describing the Target Activity as a Function of Age and Experimental Group

	n	Verbatim	Constructive	Fantastic	Total
3–4 year olds
Overheard/nonwarned	23	2.13 (0.81)	2.04 (3.08)	1.96 (2.31)	6.13 (4.48)
Classmate/nonwanred	18	1.50 (0.62)	656 (5.31)	1.17 (1.69)	9.22 (5.99)
Overheard/warned	15	1.73 (0.80)	5.00 (5.39)	1.07 (1.58)	7.93 (4.95)
Classmate/warned	22	1.82 (0.73)	7.14 (5.08)	1.23 (1.72)	10.18 (5.03)
5–6 year olds
Overheard/nonwarned	18^	1.83 (0.79)	6.33 (6.58)	1.50 (2.79)	9.67 (6.64)
Classmate/nonwarned	20	2.00 (1.52)	10.90 (9.39)	2.10 (3.46)	15.00 (10.09)
Overheard/warned	11	1.73 (0.91)	10.55 (7.05)	0.36 (1.21)	12.64 (6.31)
Overheard/warned	14	1.43 (0.65)	15.00 (11.37)	0.79 (1.05)	17.21 (11.78)