Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context
Twelve-month-old infants interpret action in context
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-9280.00218
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发表时间：
2000-01-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Sommerville, JA
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作者：
Woodward, AL;Sommerville, JA
两个实验评估了婴儿对按顺序发生的行动可能与总体目标有关的理解。实验一测试了在婴儿容易理解为目标导向的动作(抓住盒子里的玩具)的序列中嵌入一个模棱两可的动作(触摸盒子盖)是否会改变婴儿对这个模棱两可的动作的理解。在看到这种模棱两可的动作后，婴儿后来孤立地将这一动作解释为指向盒子内的玩具。实验2测试婴儿是否基于它们之间的时间关系或因果关系将这两种行为联系起来。当因果关系被打乱，但时间关系被保留时，婴儿不再将这两种行为联系起来。这些发现表明，12个月大的婴儿将单一行动与总体目标联系起来，并通过在因果框架中解释目标导向行动来做到这一点。
Two experiments assessed infants' understanding that actions that occur in sequence may be related to an overarching goal. Experiment 1 tested whether embedding an ambiguous action (touching the lid of a box) in a sequence that culminated with an action infants readily construe as goal-directed (grasping a toy inside the box) would alter infants' construal of the ambiguous action. Having seen the ambiguous action in this context, infants later construed this action in isolation as being directed at the toy within the box. Experiment 2 tested whether infants related the two actions on the basis of the temporal or the causal relation between them. When the causal relation was disrupted but the temporal relation was preserved, infants no longer related the two actions. These findings indicate that 12-month-old infants related single actions to overarching goals and that they do so by construing goal-directed action in a causal framework.