Understanding attention: 12- and 18-month-olds know what is new for other persons.
نویسندگان
چکیده
Infants at 12 and 18 months of age played with 2 adults and 2 new toys. For a 3rd toy, however, 1 of the adults left the room while the child and the other adult played with it. This adult then returned, looked at all 3 toys aligned on a tray, showed great excitement ("Wow! Cool!"), and then asked, "Can you give it to me?' To retrieve the toy the adult wanted, infants had to (a) know that people attend to and get excited about new things and (b) identify what was new for the adult even though it was not new for them. Infants at both ages did this successfully, lending support to the hypothesis that 1-year-old infants possess a genuine understanding of other persons as intentional and attentional agents.
منابع مشابه
Do infants really understand false belief? Response to Leslie.
8 Siegal, M. and Beattie, K. (1991) Where to look first for children’s knowledge of false beliefs. Cognition 38, 1–12 9 Friedman, O. and Leslie, A.M. (2004) Mechanisms of belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition and bias. Psychol. Sci. 15, 547–552 10 Leslie, A.M. et al. (2005) Belief-desire reasoning as a process of selection. Cogn. Psychol. 50, 45–85 11 Leslie, A.M. (1984) Infant perception of a ma...
متن کاملDevelopmental Changes in Infant-Stranger Interaction
Although considerable attention hos been given to the phenomenon of “stranger anxtety,” we still do not know some of the behavior01 characteristics of strangers associated with infonts’ wariness of strongers and how these may change wtth development. We olso have not systemoticolly examined the woys in which adults may vary their behavior OS o functron of the oge of the child. The following stu...
متن کاملOne- to four-year-olds connect diverse positive emotional vocalizations to their probable causes
The ability to understand why others feel the way they do is critical to human relationships. Here, we show that emotion understanding in early childhood is more sophisticated than previously believed, extending well beyond the ability to distinguish basic emotions or draw different inferences from positively and negatively valenced emotions. In a forced-choice task, 2- to 4-year-olds successfu...
متن کاملUnderstanding Personal Practical Knowledge; From what teachers must know to what teachers already know
The purpose of this study is understanding the Personal Practical Knowledge (PPK) of teachers which has been done through qualitative method. Understanding PPK helps us to understand why teachers act in a specific way. In this regards, reflecting on their personal and professional narratives also help to improve their practice. This study was conducted along with 13 teachers in a non-profit pri...
متن کاملNo two cues are alike: Depth of learning during infancy is dependent on what orients attention.
Human infants develop a variety of attentional mechanisms that allow them to extract relevant information from a cluttered multimodal world. We know that both social and nonsocial cues shift infants' attention, but not how these cues differentially affect learning of multimodal events. Experiment 1 used social cues to direct 8- and 4-month-olds' attention to two audiovisual events (i.e., animat...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- Developmental psychology
دوره 39 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003