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Baillargeon, Renée Setoh, Pei Pei 2013-05-24T21:54:03Z 2013-05-24T21:54:03Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T21:54:03Z 2013-05 What are the developmental origins of our concept of animal? There has long been controversy concerning this question. At issue is whether biological reasoning develops from earlier forms of reasoning, such as physical and psychological reasoning, or whether from a young age children endow animals with biological properties. Here we demonstrate that 8- month-old infants already expect novel objects they identify as animals to have insides. Infants detected a violation when an object that was self-propelled and agentive (but not an object that lacked one or both of these properties) was revealed to be hollow. Infants also detected a violation when an object that was self-propelled and furry (but not an object that lacked one or both of these properties) either was shown to be hollow or rattled (when shaken) as though largely hollow. Young infants’ expectations about animals’ insides may serve as a foundation for the development of more advanced biological knowledge. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-23T16:03:06Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Setoh_Peipei.pdf: 8065300 bytes, checksum: 89a63f6b7a8614da6d7580b4c723c928 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T21:54:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Pei Pei_Setoh.pdf: 8065300 bytes, checksum: 89a63f6b7a8614da6d7580b4c723c928 (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 8d4c60bc2116a929ae5d69068252da46 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44201 en Copyright 2013 Pei Pei Setoh Biological reasoning Infant Cognition Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides text Psychology 1299 Psychology 0338 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. PHD:Psychology -UIUC 10KS0338PHD