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HYPOTHETICALITY AND THE OTHER OBSERVER IN A PERSPECTIVE TASK
Author(s) -
FEHR L. A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1979.tb02402.x
Subject(s) - observer (physics) , psychology , perspective (graphical) , task (project management) , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering , physics , systems engineering , quantum mechanics
S ummary . An analysis of the ramifications of using a doll as the other observer in a coordination of perspectives task is presented. The use of a doll was questioned due to its inanimacy as well as its hypotheticality as an observer. Children aged between 6 and 12 years were tested using a normal observer, a blindfolded observer, and a doll as the other observer. The lowest overall, as well as egocentric error, rates were noted in the normal observer condition with the remaining two conditions yielding similar trends. It was concluded that performance in a perspective task is diminished when the other observer is a hypothetical one.