Knowing Who Dunnit: Infants Identify the Causal Agent in an Unseen Causal Interaction

Autor/inn/en	Saxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan
Titel	Knowing Who Dunnit: Infants Identify the Causal Agent in an Unseen Causal Interaction
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 43 (2007) 1, S.149-158 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Toys; Motion; Infant Behavior; Concept Formation; Dimensional Preference; Spatial Ability; Inferences; Perceptual Motor Coordination; Psychological Studies; Experiments; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Toy; Spielzeug; Bewegungsablauf; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Inference; Inferenz; Körperkoordination; Erprobung
Abstract	Preverbal infants can represent the causal structure of events, including distinguishing the agentive and receptive roles and categorizing entities according to stable causal dispositions. This study investigated how infants combine these 2 kinds of causal inference. In Experiments 1 and 2, 9.5-month-olds used the position of a human hand or a novel puppet (causal agents), but not a toy train (an inert object), to predict the subsequent motion of a beanbag. Conversely, in Experiment 3, 10-and 7-month-olds used the motion of the beanbag to infer the position of a hand but not of a toy block. These data suggest that preverbal infants expect a causal agent as the source of motion of an inert object. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10