12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others

Autor/inn/en	Liszkowski, Ulf; Carpenter, Malinda; Striano, Tricia; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 7 (2006) 2, S.173-187 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
Schlagwörter	Infants; Toddlers; Motivation; Nonverbal Communication; Information Dissemination; Social Cognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Informationsverbreitung; Soziale Kognition
Abstract	Classically, infants are thought to point for 2 main reasons: (a) They point imperatively when they want an adult to do something for them (e.g., give them something; "Juice!"), and (b) they point declaratively when they want an adult to share attention with them to some interesting event or object ("Look!"). Here we demonstrate the existence of another motive for infants' early pointing gestures: to inform another person of the location of an object that person is searching for. This informative motive for pointing suggests that from very early in ontogeny humans conceive of others as intentional agents with informational states and they have the motivation to provide such information communicatively. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10