Lucinda is three years old. An experimenter gives her a false-belief task in which a box that is labeled with crayons actually contains cotton. After she looks in the box, she is asked to guess what another child might think is in the box. What will Lucinda likely say?

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At three years old, Lucinda is likely to say "cotton" because children at this age typically do not yet understand that others can hold false beliefs different from their own knowledge.

Lucinda Is Three Years Old