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Young children across the globe enjoy playing games of hide and seek. For them, there's something highly exciting about escaping someone else's glance and making oneself unable to be seen.
However, we all witness that preschool children are remarkably bad at hiding. They often cover only their eyes with their hands, leaving the rest of their bodies exposed.
For a long time, this ineffective hiding method was interpreted as evidence that children are hopelessly “egocentric” (自我中心的) creatures. But our surprising research results in child developmental psychology contradicted that idea.
We brought young children aged 2-4 into our Minds in Development Lab at USC. Each child sat down with an adult who covered her own eyes or ears. We then asked the child if she could see or hear the adult. Surprisingly, children replied that they couldn't. The same thing happened when the adult covered her own mouth: Now children said that they couldn't speak to her.
A number of experiments ruled out that the children misunderstood what they were being asked. The results were clear: Our young subjects comprehended the questions and knew exactly what was asked of them. Their responses to the questions reflected their true belief that “I can see you only if you can see me, too.” They simply insist_on mutual (相互的) recognition and regard. Our findings suggest when a child “hides” by putting a blanket over her head, it is not a result of egocentrism. In fact, children consider this method effective when others use it.
词汇积累
1.hide and seek 捉迷藏
2.be bad at (doing) sth. 不擅长(做)某事,不善于(做)某事
3.interpret ...as 把……理解为/解释为
4.contradict v. 相抵触,相矛盾;反驳,否认
5.rule out 排除;不予考虑
6.comprehend v. 理解,领悟
7.insist on 坚持
8.regard (熟词生义) n. 关注,注意
诵读精美语段·增分读后续写 ——————
[语段1]Then Catherine spotted Landy seated alone in a corner. She ducked her head with her eyes fixed on the floor as usual. It hit Catherine that the pecking order (排序) worked in school, too. Landy wa