Cassidy K W
Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA.
Cognition. 1998 Apr;66(1):B1-11. doi: 10.1016/s0010-0277(98)00008-0.
Recently, several researchers have claimed that young 3-year-old children rely on desire when making behavioral predictions and that this causes poor performance on standard measures of false-belief understanding. This study investigates this claim. Results suggest that young children may, in fact, be using desire to predict behavior in these standard paradigms. Importantly, it is the desires of the agent, not the child's own desires that are used to make the prediction. Further, older preschool children also have some difficulty coordinating both belief and desire when processing demands are increased.
最近，几位研究人员声称，3岁的幼儿在进行行为预测时依赖欲望，这导致他们在错误信念理解的标准测试中表现不佳。本研究对这一说法进行了调查。结果表明，幼儿在这些标准范式中实际上可能是利用欲望来预测行为的。重要的是，用于进行预测的是行为主体的欲望，而不是孩子自己的欲望。此外，当处理要求提高时，年龄较大的学龄前儿童在协调信念和欲望方面也存在一些困难。
