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Young infants have biological expectations about animals
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ssigned to a self-propelled/agentive condition ora nonself-propelled/nonagentive condition. test whether infants would detect a violationwhen a novel object that was self-propelled and agentive—but notan object that lacked one or both of these properties—was revealedto be hollow. focused on 8-mo-old
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  • ssigned to a self-propelled/agentive condition ora nonself-propelled/nonagentive condition.
  • test whether infants would detect a violationwhen a novel object that was self-propelled and agentive—but notan object that lacked one or both of these properties—was revealedto be hollow.
  • focused on 8-mo-old infants. We reasoned that positive results would supportthe biological hypothesis by demonstrating that young infantsimmediately endow novel self-propelled agents with vitalistic,biological properties.
  • large can covered with al-ternating stripes of red and gray yarn and a large box coveredwith beige paper and varying round patches of blue cloth withmulticolored dots.
  • the can moved in a slightbouncing manner back and forth across thefloor and thenreturned to its original position

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