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Narrative task:A wordless picture book (« Frog on his own ») is used to elicit astory narrative from the child.

Episodes contain emotions elicited by the frog ’s pranks, someof which involve the frog ’s deceptive behavior.

e.g: the frog sneaks into a picnic basket of a women. When thewoman puts her hand into the basket, she pulls out the frog, much to her horror.

Experimenter (E1) go through the book with the child, allow the child to get a sense of the plot line. At no point E1 says anythingto the child about the story.

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Narrative task (cont ’d):Then E1 go back to the beginning of the book and ask the childto tell the story to E2 who had never seen the book.

The child tells the story page by page until the end.

Then, E1 return to 2 pages depicting the « high points » and probedthe child to label and explain the emotional state for the character.For the 2 pages, the child is asked to recall what was happening in the story. Then receive Q.

Q: Tells me how the ____ feels.Q: Why does the ____ feel ___?

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False-belief task:Story: A mother tells her son, Ricky, that she will make hamburgers for dinner. While he is still at school, she realizes that she does not have the right ingredients, so she makes spaghetti instead.

The child is asked to predict what Ricky bekieves his mother made for dinner.

Memory-Q: Reality-Q:Ignorance-Q:False-belief-Q: What does Ricky think Mom made for dinner?