Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants
Goal attribution to inanimate agents by 6.5-month-old infants
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.001
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
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3.4
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Csibra, Gergely
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作者：
Csibra, Gergely
人类婴儿将目标归因于观察到的行为的倾向可能有助于我们理解人们对目标的痴迷源于何处。虽然一岁大的婴儿自由地将许多种代理的行为解释为目标导向，但最近的一份报告[Kamewari，K.，加藤，M.，神田，T.，Ishiguro，H.，& Hiraki，K.（2005年）。六个半月大的孩子会积极地将目标归因于人类的行动和类人机器人的运动。认知发展，20，303-320]表明，年龄较小的婴儿限制目标归因于人类和类人生物。本实验测试了6.5个月大的婴儿是否愿意将一个目标归因于一个移动的无生命的盒子，如果它稍微改变其目标的方法范围内可用的有效行动。结果是积极的，表明代理商的功能识别是不是一个必要的先决条件，在幼儿的目标归因，并确定一个目标导向的代理商的单一的最重要的行为线索是行为的变异性。这一结果支持了这样一种观点，即对行动给予目的论解释的偏见并不完全来自婴儿的经验。(C)2007 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利。
Human infants' tendency to attribute goals to observed actions may help us to understand where people's obsession with goals originates from. While one-year-old infants liberally interpret the behaviour of many kinds of agents as goal-directed, a recent report [Kamewari, K., Kato, M., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., & Hiraki, K. (2005). Six-and-a-half-month-old children positively attribute goals to human action and to humanoid-robot motion. Cognitive Development, 20, 303-320] suggested that younger infants restrict goal attribution to humans and human-like creatures. The present experiment tested whether 6.5-month-old infants would be willing to attribute a goal to a moving inanimate box if it slightly varied its goal approach within the range of the available efficient actions. The results were positive, demonstrating that featural identification of agents is not a necessary precondition of goal attribution in young infants and that the single most important behavioural cue for identifying a goal-directed agent is variability of behaviour. This result supports the view that the bias to give teleological interpretation to actions is not entirely derived from infants' experience. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.