Setoh et al., 2013

Question 1

Research Question

Answer 1

• what are infants’ concepts of animals?

- do they think about animals in biological ways

Question 2

method

Answer 2

• show infant things that are animal-like

- see whether infants expect animal-like things to have insides

Question 3

results

Answer 3

• infants looked longer on hollow trials than on closed trials (but ONLY during the self-propelled condition)
• Infants only looked longer at the object hollow ONLY when the item showed both autonomous motion and made a noise
• Have to be furry and move on its own for an infant to expect it to have insides

Question 4

discussion

Answer 4

• testing concepts
• we are testing what infants think about what makes an animal
• infants view self-propelled motion and agency as defining features of animals