The purpose of this study was to examine whether preschool children would construct episodes that were not directly implied in the given events only when they were required to integrate inconsistent events. In the first study, 5-and 6-year-olds evaluated sentences for their consistency, and integrated inconsistent ones by constructing new episodes. Some 4-year-olds, however, made up episode to integrate sentences when they did not detect their inconsistency. In the second study, children were asked to integrate each type of sentences that were consistent or inconsistent. Similar to adults\u27 performance, 5-and 6-year-olds integrated consistent sentences by using direct implications of given sentences, and integrated inconsistent sentences by constructing new episodes. Four-year-olds\u27 way of integration if they did, was similar to older children\u27s one, but they often did not integrate. Yet in the third study where given events had more explicit consistency, 4-year-olds integrated them by using direct implications like 5-year-olds. These results showed that preschool children constructed new episodes only if given events was inconsistent
