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ERIC Number: EJ569155
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Children's Use of Looking Behavior as a Cue to Detect Another's Goal.
Montgomery, Derek E.; Bach, Leslie M.; Moran, Christy
Child Development, v69 n3 p692-705 Jun 1998
Three studies examined children's understanding of looking behavior in revealing another's desired goal. Found that 6-year olds and adults, but not 4-year olds, consistently regarded prolonged looking as a more important cue than glancing or inadvertent touching of the protagonist's goal. Results suggest that development is characterized by increasing appreciation that goals are revealed by differences in perceptual connectedness to objects. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cues, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies, Social Cognition, Vision
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Theory of Mind