Where's the ball? Two- and three-year-olds reason about unseen events

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作者
Berthier, NE [1 ]
DeBlois, S [1 ]
Poirier, CR [1 ]
Novak, MA [1 ]
Clifton, RK [1 ]
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[1] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Psychol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
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10.1037/0012-1649.36.3.394
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B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
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040202 ;
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Children 2, 21/2, and 3 years of age engaged in a search task in which they opened 1 of 4 doors in an occluder to retrieve a ball that had been rolled behind the occluder. The correct door was determined by a partially visible wall placed behind the occluder that stopped the motion of the unseen ball. Only the oldest group of children was able to reliably choose the correct door. All children were able to retrieve a toy that had been hidden in the same apparatus if the toy was hidden from the front by opening a door. Analysis of the younger children's errors indicated that they did not search randomly but instead used a variety of strategies. The results are consistent with the Piagetian view that the ability to use representations to guide action develops slowly over the first years of life.
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