Children's application of Theory of Mind in reasoning and language
| Autor: | Petra Hendriks, Liesbeth Flobbe, I.M. Krämer, Rineke Verbrugge |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
False belief business.industry 05 social sciences Semantics 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Test (assessment) Comprehension 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy 0302 clinical medicine Strategic game Theory of mind Computer Science (miscellaneous) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Artificial intelligence Psychology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sentence Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 17(4), 417-442. SPRINGER |
| ISSN: | 0925-8531 |
| Popis: | Many social situations require a mental model of the knowledge, beliefs, goals, and intentions of others: a Theory of Mind (ToM). If a person can reason about other people's beliefs about his own beliefs or intentions, he is demonstrating second-order ToM reasoning. A standard task to test second-order ToM reasoning is the second-order false belief task. A different approach to investigating ToM reasoning is through its application in a strategic game. Another task that is believed to involve the application of second-order ToM is the comprehension of sentences that the hearer can only understand by considering the speaker's alternatives. In this study we tested 40 children between 8 and 10 years old and 27 adult controls on (adaptations of) the three tasks mentioned above: the false belief task, a strategic game, and a sentence comprehension task. The results show interesting differences between adults and children, between the three tasks, and between this study and previous research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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