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Scott, Rose M.; Baillargeon, Renee; Song, Hyun-joo; Leslie, Alan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2010
Reports that infants in the second year of life can attribute false beliefs to others have all used a "search" paradigm in which an agent with a false belief about an object's location searches for the object. The present research asked whether 18-month-olds would still demonstrate false-belief understanding when tested with a novel "non-search"…
Descriptors: Infants, Generalization, Toddlers, Attribution Theory
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Sobel, David M.; Yoachim, Caroline M.; Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Blumenthal, Emily J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Four experiments examined children's inferences about the relation between objects' internal parts and their causal properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds recognized that objects with different internal parts had different causal properties, and those causal properties transferred if the internal part moved to another object. In Experiment 2,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inferences, Concept Formation, Age Differences