Children's attributions of intentions to an invisible agent
Children's attributions of intentions to an invisible agent
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.42.2.253
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
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4
通讯作者：
Parker, BD
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作者：
Bering, JM;Parker, BD
3-9岁的儿童被告知，一个看不见的代理人（爱丽丝公主）会帮助他们玩一个强迫选择游戏，通过“告诉他们，不知何故，当他们选择了错误的盒子”，而一个匹配的对照组的儿童没有得到这个超自然的启动。在2次意外事件试验中，实验者触发了一个模拟的意外事件（即，灯打开/关闭;图片掉落），以及儿童对这些事件的行为反应（即，移动他们的手到对面的盒子）被编码。结果表明，一个显着的年龄组X实验条件的相互作用，唯一的孩子可靠地改变他们的行为，以应对意外事件的年龄最大的儿童（M = 7岁4个月），谁是启动与无形的代理概念。对于儿童的后测口头解释，同样，只有这些儿童认为意外事件是指涉性和陈述性的（例如，爱丽丝公主这么做是因为我选错了盒子。总之，这些数据表明，儿童可能不会定期开始看到嵌入在意外事件的沟通符号，直到他们7岁左右。
Children ages 3-9 years were informed that an invisible agent (Princess Alice) would help them play a forced-choice game by "telling them, somehow, when they chose the wrong box," whereas a matched control group of children were not given this supernatural prime. On 2 unexpected event trials, an experimenter triggered a simulated unexpected event (i.e., a light turning on/off; a picture falling), and children's behavioral response to these events (i.e., moving their hand to the opposite box) was coded. Results showed a significant Age Group X Experimental Condition interaction; the only children to reliably alter their behavior in response to the unexpected events were the oldest children (M = 7 years 4 months), who were primed with the invisible agent concept. For children's posttest verbal explanations, also, only these children saw the unexpected events as being referential and declarative (e.g., "Princess Alice did it because I chose the wrong box"). Together, these data suggest that children may not regularly begin to see communicative signs as embedded in unexpected events until they are around 7 years of age.