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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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Casler, Krista; Kelemen, Deborah – Cognition, 2007
From the age of 2.5, children use social information to rapidly form enduring function-based artifact categories. The present study asked whether even younger children likewise constrain their use of objects according to teleo-functional beliefs that artifacts are "for" particular purposes, or whether they use objects as means to any desired end.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Development, Child Behavior, Object Manipulation