کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7287021 1474127 2015 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
درک کودکان از هزینه ها و پاداش های اعمال منطقی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی
Humans explain and predict other agents' behavior using mental state concepts, such as beliefs and desires. Computational and developmental evidence suggest that such inferences are enabled by a principle of rational action: the expectation that agents act efficiently, within situational constraints, to achieve their goals. Here we propose that the expectation of rational action is instantiated by a naïve utility calculus sensitive to both agent-constant and agent-specific aspects of costs and rewards associated with actions. In four experiments, we show that, given an agent's choices, children (range: 5-6 year olds; N = 96) can infer unobservable aspects of costs (differences in agents' competence) from information about subjective differences in rewards (differences in agents' preferences) and vice versa. Moreover, children can design informative experiments on both objects and agents to infer unobservable constraints on agents' actions.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 140, July 2015, Pages 14-23
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