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ERIC Number: EJ737531
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
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Decalage in Infants' Knowledge about Occlusion and Containment Events: Converging Evidence from Action Tasks
Hespos, Susan J.; Baillargeon, Renee
Cognition, v99 n2 pB31-B41 Mar 2006
In the present research, 6-month-old infants consistently searched for a tall toy behind a tall as opposed to a short occluder. However, when the same toy was hidden inside a tall or a short container, only older, 7.5-month-old infants searched for the tall toy inside the tall container. These and control results (1) confirm previous violation-of-expectation (VOE) findings of a decalage in infants' reasoning about height information in occlusion and containment events; (2) cast doubt on the suggestion that VOE tasks overestimate infants' cognitive abilities; and (3) support recent proposals that infants use their physical knowledge to guide their actions when task demands do not overwhelm their limited processing resources.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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