In the training phase the subjects learned that it was in their interest to tell the experimenter, by pointing, to look into an empty box for the chocolate, although subjects did not know until after the search which box was empty. In the testing phase, the boxes had windows facing the ...
Children had to choose which of two exploratory actions (open vs. shake) to perform to find an egg shaker hidden in one of four small boxes, contained in two larger boxes. Prior to this game, children either learnt that the egg was equally likely to be found in any of the four small...
The examiner instructed the child to look at the probe and the two response alternatives, and then she covered them with small cardboard boxes. This introduced a memory component into the task, as might be required to complete the olfactory discrimination task successfully. After waiting 5 to ...
All participants received 15 test trials. In the box version, we decided to adjust the task difficulty according to the sample: children were presented with five boxes, while adults were presented with eight boxes as possible target locations. Analysis All test trials without voice-over descriptions...
then children divide their search only between the featurally indistinguishable boxes, exhibiting both their use of an object as a beacon and their failure to reorient in that particular environment so as to distinguish between the two identical boxes (Gouteux and Spelke, 2001, Lee et al., 2006...
Change point analysis Bayesian statistics Theory of mind Preschoolers 1. Introduction Change is a ubiquitous yet recalcitrant problem for psychology. We would like to understand processes of change in many different areas from changes due to therapeutic or pedagogical interventions to natural changes wroug...
Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children’s immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between a