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teleological stance: a standalone construct

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Cognitive development

infants' early interpretive scheme that explains an agent's action as the most efficient means to a goal given the constraints of the situation.

In cognitive development, teleological stance refers to infants' early interpretive scheme that explains an agent's action as the most efficient means to a goal given the constraints of the situation. This meaning comes from Gergely (2003) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.[1]

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References

Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2003). Teleological reasoning in infancy: the naı̈ve theory of rational action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(7), 287-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(03)00128-1

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