Table 3.
Comparisons of transcriptions of the verbal responses between the first and the third measurements that were recorded to the question “How do you expect the story of the cat to turn out if Junko and her father discuss the cat? ” which was asked in the inventory of social perspective-taking.
| Group | Participant code | 1st | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental | A* | Junko will climb up the tree. | Junko had permission from her father to climb the tree. |
| B | The cat will be helped by Junko. | – | |
| C* | The cat will be helped by a fire truck equipped with a ladder. | I believe her father will permit Junko to climb. Otherwise, he will call for a fire truck. | |
| D* | Junko should have climbed with the help of a ladder. | Her father will help the cat with a ladder. | |
| E | Having no other option, Junko will climb up the tree. | Having no other option, her father will allow her to climb the tree. | |
| F | Her father will bring a ladder, climb on it, and help the cat. | Her father will bring a ladder and help the cat. | |
| G* | They will discuss the way to help the cat. | Her father will help the cat. | |
| H | Her father helped the cat! | Her father will help the cat somehow. | |
| I* | I think the cat will possibly be helped because Junko will climb up the tree. | Junko will climb the tree and help the cat. | |
| Control | J | Junko will climb up the tree, and her father will keep watching her actions. | Junko will be permitted to climb up the tree just for once. |
| K+ | Her father will climb up the tree. | Junko will be permitted to climb up the tree with grown-up. | |
| L* | I believe her father will permit Junko to climb. Otherwise, he will climb up by himself. | Junko may be permitted to climb up the tree. If she couldn’t, then call a friend who is good at climbing. | |
| M | I think her father will call for a fire truck. | Junko call for a fire truck or a neighbor, or wait for the cat climb down, or encourage it. | |
| N | Junko will be permitted to climb up the tree. | – | |
| O | Her father will allow her to help the cat. | The cat will be helped. Junko will talk her father that she wants to help the cat which cannot get down. Then he will allow her to climb the tree and she will climb to help it. | |
| P | Her father will bring a ladder and help the cat. | I think that her father will bring a ladder and make it through. |
Asterisk denotes participants whose scores increased at the third testing, + denotes participant whose scores decreased at the third testing.