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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2013 Mar 15;84(5):1496–1510. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12081

Table 1.

Patterns of Correct and Incorrect Judgments Regarding Reality Status

Reality Status
Judgment Real Not Real

Real HIT
(e.g., knowing that dinosaurs are real)
FALSE ALARM
(e.g., believing in Santa Claus)

Not Real MISS
(rejecting the reality status of real entities and events - the focus of this paper)
CORRECT REJECTION
(e.g., doubting the existence of dancing carrots)