Onishi and Baillargeon 2005

Question 1

research question

Answer 1

Can infants as young as ~15 months old ‘pass’ the false-belief task?

Question 2

methods

Answer 2

use looking time measures

Question 3

results

Answer 3

• Infants looked longer at the belief-inconsistent event
• Infants as young as 1 yr old have an “implicit” understanding
• infants: implicit tasks, eye gaze, pass at 1 yr old
• preschool: explicit, point/verbal response, pass at 5 yr old (fail at 3)