Can 5-Month-Old Infants Consider the Perspective of a Novel Eyeless Agent? New Evidence for Early Mentalistic Reasoning

Autor/inn/en	Choi, Youjung; Luo, Yuyan; Baillargeon, Renée
Titel	Can 5-Month-Old Infants Consider the Perspective of a Novel Eyeless Agent? New Evidence for Early Mentalistic Reasoning
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 2, S.571-581 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Choi, Youjung) ORCID (Baillargeon, Renée)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13707
Schlagwörter	Infants; Child Development; Cognitive Processes; Preferences; Cognitive Ability; Object Permanence; Task Analysis; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Kindesentwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Denkfähigkeit; Objektpermanenz; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	Is early reasoning about an agent's knowledge best characterized by a mentalistic stance, a teleological stance, or both? In this research, 5-month-old infants (N = 64, 50% female, 83% White) saw a novel eyeless agent consistently approach object-A as opposed to object-B. Although infants could always see both objects, a screen separated object-B from the agent. When object-B protruded above the screen, infants interpreted the agent's actions as revealing a preference for object-A over object-B. When object-B did not protrude above the screen, however, infants refrained from attributing such a preference: Consistent with mentalistic accounts, they reasoned that the agent's representation of the scene did not include object-B, and they used the agent's incomplete representation, non-egocentrically, to interpret its actions. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01