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The Role of Action-Initiation in Young Children's Causal Explanations of Action.
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Montgomery, Derek E. – Cognitive Development, 1996
Four studies examined preschoolers' use of the cue of action initiation to infer another's desired goal. Found that differences in action initiation play an increasingly important role in 3-year-olds' mentalistic explanations of action, and that this development may be related to other critical changes occurring in their developing theory of mind.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes