False-belief understanding in infants
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False-belief understanding in infants.
At what age can children attribute false beliefs to others? Traditionally, investigations into this question have used elicited-response tasks in which children are asked a direct question about an agent's false belief. Results from these tasks indicate that the ability to attribute false beliefs does not emerge until about age 4. However, recent investigations using spontaneous-response tasks ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.12.006