ABSTRACT
The world of a child is complex. Barker and Wright (1951) followed a 7-year-old boy in a small midwestern American community for one day, from the time he woke up until the time he went to sleep. They found that their subject participated in hundreds of different activities over a range of settings with scores of objects and with dozens of persons. Getting around in one’s world is a baffling achievement, which requires a variety of social skills and a whole arsenal of factual knowledge.
