Two-year-olds grasp the intentional structure of pretense acts

被引:35
作者
Rakoczy, Hannes [1 ]
Tomasello, Michael [1 ]
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[1] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Dev & Comparat Psychol, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00533.x
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B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
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040202 ;
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Twenty-two- and 27-month-old children were tested for their understanding of pretending as a specific intentional action form. Pairs of superficially similar behaviors - pretending to perform an action and trying to perform that action - were demonstrated to children. The 27-month-olds, and to some degree the 22-month-olds, showed in their responses that they understood the intentional structure of both kinds of behaviors: after pretense models, they themselves performed appropriate inferential pretense acts, whereas after the trying models they properly performed the action or tried to perform it with novel means. These findings are discussed in the light of recent debates about children's developing understanding of pretense and theory of mind.
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