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Actors and Actions: The Role of Agent Behavior in Infants' Attribution of Goals
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Johnson, Susan C.; Shimizu, Y. Alpha; Ok, Su-Jeong – Cognitive Development, 2007
Twelve-month-old infants attribute goals to both familiar, human agents and unfamiliar, non-human agents. They also attribute goal-directedness to both familiar actions and unfamiliar ones. Four conditions examined information 12-month-olds use to determine which actions of an unfamiliar agent are goal-directed. Infants who witnessed the agent…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Goal Orientation, Role