36-Month-Olds Conceal Visual and Auditory Information from Others

Autor/inn/en	Melis, Alicia P.; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	36-Month-Olds Conceal Visual and Auditory Information from Others
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 13 (2010) 3, S.479-489 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00892.x
Schlagwörter	Cues; Visual Stimuli; Auditory Stimuli; Evaluation Methods; Young Children; Compliance (Psychology); Adults; Social Behavior; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Auditive Stimulation; Frühe Kindheit; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	By three years of age, children are skilled at assessing under which circumstances others can see things. However, nothing is known about whether they can use this knowledge to guide their own deceptive behaviour. Here we investigated 3-year-olds' ability to strategically inhibit or conceal forbidden actions that a nearby adult experimenter could see or hear. In the first experiment, children were more likely to disobey the adult when she did not have visual access to their activities than they were when she was looking at them. In the second experiment, in which the adult could never see the child, children refrained from making noise when engaging in a prohibited action that the adult might hear. These results suggest that by three years of age children use their knowledge of others' perceptual states to decide whether it is safe to commit a transgression and, moreover, actively conceal perceptual cues that could reveal to others their ongoing transgression. (As Provided).
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