The influence of language and socioeconomic status on children's understanding of false belief
| Autor: | Gil Diesendruck, Didar Akar, Ivelisse Martinez-Beck, Marilyn Shatz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male Vocabulary Turkish Concept Formation media_common.quotation_subject Field Dependence-Independence Language Development Psycholinguistics Developmental psychology Brazilian Portuguese Orientation Ethnicity Developmental and Educational Psychology Cognitive development Humans Attention Life-span and Life-course Studies Problem Solving Language Personal Construct Theory Demography Social influence computer.programming_language media_common language.human_language Socioeconomic Factors Child Preschool language Female Lexico Portuguese Psychology computer Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Psychology. 39:717-729 |
| ISSN: | 1939-0599 0012-1649 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0012-1649.39.4.717 |
| Popis: | Study 1 investigated whether differences in the lexical explicitness with which languages express false belief influence children's performance on standard false belief tasks. Preschoolers speaking languages with explicit terms (Turkish and Puerto Rican Spanish) were compared with preschoolers speaking languages without explicit terms (Brazilian Portuguese and English) on questions assessing false belief understanding either specifically (the think question) or more generally (the look for question). Lexical explicitness influenced responses to the think question only. Study 2 replicated Study 1 with groups of both speakers differing in socioeconomic status (SES). A local effect of explicitness was found again as well as a more general influence of SES. The findings are discussed with regard to possible relations among language, SES, and understanding of mind. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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