Department of Psychology.
Dev Psychol. 2020 Nov;56(11):2095-2101. doi: 10.1037/dev0001100. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
How does a person make decisions across perceptual boundaries? Here, we test the account that confidence constitutes a common currency for perceptual decisions even in childhood by examining whether confidence can be compared across distinct perceptual dimensions. We conducted a strict test of domain-generality in confidence reasoning by asking 6- to 7-year-olds to compare their confidence in 2 decisions, either from the same perceptual dimension (e.g., number vs. number) or from two different perceptual dimensions (e.g., area vs. emotion). Not only could children compare their confidence across and within domains but there were no differences in their abilities to make within- and across-domain comparisons. Our findings support the idea that confidence is represented in a common format even in childhood, which could provide an account for perceptual integration in childhood that doesn't necessitate the use of language. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
一个人如何跨越感知边界做出决策？在这里，我们通过检验信心是否可以在不同的感知维度之间进行比较，来测试信心构成感知决策共同货币的说法，即使在儿童时期也是如此。我们通过要求 6 至 7 岁的儿童比较他们在 2 个决策中的信心，来严格测试信心推理的领域普遍性，这 2 个决策要么来自相同的感知维度（例如，数字与数字），要么来自两个不同的感知维度（例如，面积与情感）。儿童不仅可以在不同的领域内进行信心比较，还可以在同一领域内进行信心比较，而且他们在进行领域内和领域间比较的能力上没有差异。我们的研究结果支持这样一种观点，即信心即使在儿童时期也是以共同的格式表示的，这可以为儿童时期的感知整合提供一种解释，而不需要使用语言。
