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"This Way!", "No! That Way!"--3-Year Olds Know that Two People Can Have Mutually Incompatible Desires
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Rakoczy, Hannes; Warneken, Felix; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2007
In theory of mind research, there is a long standing dispute about whether children come to understand the subjectivity of both desires and beliefs at the same time (around age 4), or whether there is an asymmetry such that desires are understood earlier. To address this issue, 3-year olds' understanding of situations in which two persons have…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Young Children, Child Development, Beliefs
The Executive Demands of Strategic Reasoning are Modified by the Way in which Children are Prompted to Think About the Task: Evidence from 3- to 4-Year-Olds
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Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A.; Riggs, Kevin J. – Cognitive Development, 2007
We investigated a test of strategic reasoning (the Windows task) that in different studies has yielded contrasting pictures of young children's executive abilities [Russell, J., Mauthner, N., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991). "The 'windows task' as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects." "British Journal of…
Descriptors: Memory, Developmental Psychology, Preschool Children, Inferences