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Page 254254 Pernerwill use the cup of which she believes that it will more likely producethe effect (dbA-CIP), i.e., the other dotted cup.(TB-control): The person looks at demo for each individual cup, therefore(Sb-CIP1) knows that striped cup does but second dotted cupdoes not rattle when shaken. ... Hence the person will use the cup ofwhich she knows that it will more likely produce the effect (dbA-CIP), i.e., the other dotted cup.Behavior Rules:General rules (CIP1 takes precedence over CIP2):(SA-CIP1): IF a person looks at a demo of an action on objects producingan effectAND the person is asked to produce the effect with one ofthese objects,THEN the person is more likely to use an object on whichthe effect was shown when she looked than one that didn’tshow the effect when she looked.(SA-CIP2): IF a person looks at a demo of an action on an objectproducing an effectAND the person is asked to produce the effect with newobjects,THEN the person is more likely to use an object that issimilar to the demo object than one that is dissimilar.Application to specific situation:(FB): CIP1 does not apply, therefore, CIP2 applies and makes thecorrect prediction.(TB-control): CIP1 applies and makes the correct prediction.NOT FOR DISTRIBUTIONI also looked at most of the other studies mentioned in Seminar S-104(Buttelmann, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2008, presented by Carpenter;Neumann, Thörmer, & Sodian, 2008; Poulin-Dubois & Chow, 2008; Träuble,Marinovic, & Pauen, 2008) and think them amenable to a very similar analysis.Their ingenious designs give us useful information about the CIPs infantsmust have available and how infants encode what they experience (situationsS and actions A) in a way that is also suitable for a mentalist approach (smartencoding). But these studies do not provide hard evidence in favour of mentalistCIPs over behavioral SA-CIPs. As I tried to point out in the secondsection (on Povinelli’s Challenge), such evidence is hard to come by andinvolves tests of generalizability. Lacking such evidence, let me investigatewhether we can find some help in plausibility arguments.Perception, attention, and action:International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume1). Peter A. Frensch and Ralf Schwarzer (Eds). 2010.Published by Psychology Press on behalf of the International Union of Psychological Science.This proof is for the use of the author only. Any substantial or systematic reproduction,re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in anyform to anyone is expressly forbidden.15:58:17:03:10Page 254