In a study of three-year-olds by Louis Moses and John Flavell, the children were shown a videotape in which a girl named Cathy found some crayons in a bag. When Cathy left the room briefly, a clown entered the room. The clown removed the crayons from the bag, hid them in a drawer, and put rocks in the bag instead. When Cathy returned, the children were asked what Cathy thought the bag contained. Most of the three-year-olds answered that the bag contained _____.

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Three-year-olds typically have difficulty understanding that others can hold false beliefs, so they assume Cathy would think the bag contains rocks, as they know the current contents.

In a Study of Three-Year-Olds by Louis Moses and John