You give a three-year-old child a large plastic canister with pictures of blocks on it. The child shakes the canister and it rattles, but when she opens it, she finds that it contains large beads

What will the child assume about the expectations of the next person who receives the canister? What is this phenomenon called?
What will be an ideal response?


false-belief principle: the child will believe that the next person will believe that the canister contains beads even though there are pictures of blocks on it

Psychology

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