Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants
Attribution of beliefs by 13-month-old infants
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01943.x
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发表时间：
2007-07-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Sperber, Dan
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作者：
Surian, Luca;Caldi, Stefania;Sperber, Dan
在两项实验中，我们调查了 13 个月大的婴儿是否期望智能体的行为方式与他们所接触到的信息一致。婴儿观看的动画中，动物要么被提供信息，要么被阻止收集有关物体实际位置的信息。然后动物成功地搜索或未能检索到该物体。婴儿的观看时间表明，他们期望当且仅当代理能够访问相关信息时搜索才会有效。这一结果支持这样的观点，即婴儿拥有一种早期的元表征能力，使他们能够将信念归因于主体。我们讨论了更保守的解释的可行性，以及这种早期能力和后来的心智理论形式之间的关系，这些心智理论只有在儿童成为有经验的言语交流者之后才出现。
In two experiments, we investigated whether 13-month-old infants expect agents to behave in a way that is consistent with information to which they have been exposed. Infants watched animations in which an animal was either provided information or prevented from gathering information about the actual location of an object. The animal then searched successfully or failed to retrieve the object. Infants' looking times suggest that they expected searches to be effective when-and only when-the agent had had access to the relevant information. This result supports the view that infants possess an incipient metarepresentational ability that permits them to attribute beliefs to agents. We discuss the viability of more conservative explanations and the relation between this early ability and later forms of theory of mind that appear only after children have become experienced verbal communicators.