Good afternoon and welcome to Trivia Tuesday! This week’s question relates to something we see on jack o’lanterns… bright, wide smiles!
As your child begins to interact with the world, within a few weeks you will begin to see some smiles from your young ones. However, there are two different major types of smiles that emerge from infants… what are these two smiles called?
- Happy smiles and surprise smiles
- Regular smiles and super smiles
- Joyful smiles and enjoyment smiles
- Reflective smiles and social smiles
The answer to last week’s question is yes! This is due to a child’s inability to think from another person’s perspective. Here is a refresher to last week’s scenario for the question:
Person 1 left their toy on the table and walked into another room. Person 2 then moved the toy and put it somewhere else different than where it was left. Person 1 then comes back into the room, would person 1 know where their toy is now?
As adults, we know that after Person 1 walks back into the room, they would look in the original location of the toy because they did not see Person 2 move the toy. Children under the age of four typically do not understand this, meaning they would assume Person 1 knows that the toy was moved since the child saw Person 2 move the toy themselves. This concept of recognizing situations from another person’s perspective is called the Theory of Mind and it is not achieved until around the age of five. Experiments are often completed to test children’s understandings in this theory through using a False-Belief task such as the scenario above.
Tune in next Tuesday to find out the answer to this week’s question!