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From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief
Evidence is accumulating that infants are sensitive to people's false beliefs, whereas children pass the standard false belief test at around 4 years of age. Debate currently centres on the nature of early and late understanding. We defend the view that early sensitivity to false beliefs shown...
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Elsevier Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22964134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.004 |
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description | Evidence is accumulating that infants are sensitive to people's false beliefs, whereas children pass the standard false belief test at around 4 years of age. Debate currently centres on the nature of early and late understanding. We defend the view that early sensitivity to false beliefs shown in ‘online tasks’ (where engagement with ongoing events reflects an expectation of what will happen without a judgement that it will happen) reflects implicit/unconscious social knowledge of lawful regularities. The traditional false belief task requires explicit consideration of the agent's subjective perspective on his reasons for action. This requires an intentional switch of perspectives not possible before 4 years of age as evidenced by correlations between the false belief task and many different perspective-taking tasks. |
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spelling | pubmed-34602392012-10-16 From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief Perner, Josef Roessler, Johannes Trends Cogn Sci Review Evidence is accumulating that infants are sensitive to people's false beliefs, whereas children pass the standard false belief test at around 4 years of age. Debate currently centres on the nature of early and late understanding. We defend the view that early sensitivity to false beliefs shown in ‘online tasks’ (where engagement with ongoing events reflects an expectation of what will happen without a judgement that it will happen) reflects implicit/unconscious social knowledge of lawful regularities. The traditional false belief task requires explicit consideration of the agent's subjective perspective on his reasons for action. This requires an intentional switch of perspectives not possible before 4 years of age as evidenced by correlations between the false belief task and many different perspective-taking tasks. Elsevier Science 2012-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3460239/ /pubmed/22964134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.004 Text en © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) license |
spellingShingle | Review Perner, Josef Roessler, Johannes From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title | From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title_full | From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title_fullStr | From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title_full_unstemmed | From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title_short | From infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
title_sort | from infants’ to children's appreciation of belief |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22964134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.004 |
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