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Knowing in the context of acting: The task dynamics of the A-not-B error.

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Knowing in the context of acting: The task dynamics of the A-not-B error.

Linda B. Smith, Esther Thelen, Robert C. Titzer, Dewey McLin · 1999 · Psychological Review

Children
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Ages
Babies in their first year
How
Lab experiments on reaching
What it found
Argues that when babies search in the wrong place, it comes from how reaching habits build up, not from forgetting where the toy is.
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