Department of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Dev Sci. 2011 Nov;14(6):1255-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01042.x. Epub 2011 Apr 28.
We investigated whether infants can transfer their goal attribution between situations that contain different types of information about the goal. We found that 12-month-olds who had attributed a goal based on the causal efficacy of a means-end action generated expectations about the actor's action in another scenario in which the actor could choose between alternative outcomes. This finding suggests that, by 12 months, infants possess a unitary concept of goal.
我们研究了婴儿是否可以在包含不同类型关于目标信息的情境之间转移他们的目标归因。我们发现，基于手段-目的动作的因果效用来归因目标的 12 个月大的婴儿会对演员在另一个可以在不同结果之间选择的场景中的动作产生期望。这一发现表明，到 12 个月大时，婴儿拥有单一的目标概念。
