Showing papers by "Ulrich Geppert published in 1987"
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: This article found that adults are more likely to take responsibility for their actions and to relate those actions to personal goals and beliefs than infants, and that adults can explicitly plan, modify and correct behavior, are not tied to a temporally immediate, physically accessible world and can achieve desired outcomes in a flexible manner.
Abstract: A generally shared assumption is that children are active, goal-directed participants in what they experience. However, there appear to be large age differences in the content of and processes mediating goal-directed activity. Adults, in contrast to infants, for example, can explicitly plan, modify, and correct behavior, are not tied to a temporally immediate, physically accessible world, and can achieve desired outcomes in a flexible manner. In addition, adults are more likely to take responsibility for their actions and to relate those actions to personal goals and beliefs.
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