Working memory and children's developing understanding of mind

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 76-82

  Keenan, Thomas ^a   Olson, David R ^b   Marini, Zopito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032282379     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049539808257537     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Astington, J.W. (1993). The child's discovery of the mind. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Astington, J.W. (1996). What is theoretical about the child's theory of mind?: A Vygotskian view of its development. In P. Carruthers & P.K. Smith (Eds.), Theories of theories of mind (pp. 184-199). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Astington, J.W., & Gopnik, A. (1991). Theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 7-31.
4. Baddeley, A. (1986). Working memory. Oxford: Clarendon.
5. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind Cambridge, MA: Bradford.
6. Bruner, J. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
7. Case, R. (1985). Intellectual development: Birth to adulthood. New York: Academic Press.
8. Case, R. (1989, April). A neo-Piagetian analysis of the child's understanding of other people, and the internal conditions which motivate their behaviour. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO.
9. Case, R. (1992). The mind's staircase: Exploring the conceptual underpinnings of children's thought and knowledge. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Case, R., Kurland, M., & Goldberg, J. (1982). Operational efficiency and the growth of shor term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33, 386-404.
11. Chandler, M., Fritz, A. & Hala, S. (1989). Small scale deceit: Deception as a marker of 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds' early theories of mind. Child Development, 60, 1263-1277.
12. Charman, T., & Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Understanding photos, models and beliefs: A test of the modularity thesis of theory of mind. Cognitive Development, 10, 287-298.
13. Cohen, J. (1990). Things I have learned (so far). American Psychologist, 45, 1304-1312.
14. Davis, H.L., & Pratt, C. (1995). The development of children's theory of mind: The working memory explanation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 47, 25-31.
15. Dunn, J., Brown, J., Slomkowski, C., Tesla, C., & Youngblade, L. (1991). Young children's understanding of other people's feelings and their beliefs: Individual differences and their antecedents. Child Development, 62, 1352-1366.
16. Feldman, C. (1992). The new theory of theory of mind. Human Development, 35, 107-117.
17. Fodor, J.A. (1992). A theory of the child's theory of mind. Cognition, 44, 283-296.
18. Freeman, N., Lewis, C , & Doherty, M. (1991). Preschoolers' grasp of a desire for knowledge in false-belief prediction: Practical intelligence and verbal report. Bristish Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 139-158.
19. Frye, D., Zelazo, P., & Palfai, T. (1995). Theory of mind and rule-based reasoning. Cognitive Development, 10, 483-527.
20. Gopnik, A. (1996). Theories and modules: Creation myths, developmental realities, and Neurath's boat. In P. Carruthers & P.K. Smith (Eds.), Theories of theories of mind (pp. 169-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
21. Gopnik, A., & Astington, J.W. (1988). Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false-belief and the appearance-reality distinction. Child Development, 59, 26-37.
22. Gopnik, A., & Wellman, H.M. (1992). Why the child's theory of mind really is a theory. Mind and Language, 7, 145-171.
23. Gopnik, A., & Wellman, H.M. (1994). The theory theory. In L.A. Hirschfeld & S.A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture (pp. 257-293). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Gordon, R.M. (1992). The simulation theory: Objections and misconceptions. Mind and Language, 7, 11-34.
25. Halford, G.S. (1993). Children's understanding: The development of mental models. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
26. Harris, P.L. (1992). From simulation to folk psychology: The case for development. Mind and Language, 7, 120-144.
27. Jenkins, J.M., & Astington, J.W. (1996). Cognitive factors and family structure associated with theory of mind development in young children. Developmental Psychology, 32, 70-78.
28. Keenan, T., Ruffman, T.K., & Olson, D.R. (1994). When do children begin to understand logical inference as a source of knowledge? Cognitive Development, 9, 331-353.
29. Leslie, A.M. (1994). ToMM, ToBY and Agency: Core architecture and domain specificity. In L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture (pp. 119-148). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Leslie, A.M., & Thaiss, L. (1992). Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism. Cognition, 43, 225-251.
31. Marini, Z., & Case, R. (1989). Parallels in the development of preschoolers' knowledge about their physical and social worlds. Merril-Palmer Quarterly, 35, 63-88.
32. Marini, Z., & Case, R (1994). The development of abstract reasoning about the physical and social world. Child Development, 65, 147-159.
33. Moses, L.J. & Flavell, J.H. (1990). Inferring false beliefs from actions and reactions. Child Development, 61, 929-945.
34. Olson, D.R. (1989). Making up your mind. Canadian Psychology, 30, 617-627.
35. Olson, D.R. (1993). The development of representations: The origins of mental life. Canadian Psychology, 34, 1-14.
36. Perner, J. (1991). Understanding the representational mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Perner, J., Leekam, S., & Wimmer, H. (1987). Three-year-olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 125-137.
38. Peskin, J. (1992). Ruse and representation: On children's ability to conceal their intentions. Developmental Psychology, 28, 84-89.
39. Plaut, D.C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1993). Representational development and theory-of-mind computations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 70-71.
40. Sullivan, K., & Winner, E. (1991). When three-year-olds understand ignorance, false belief and representational change. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 159-171.
41. Thelen, E., & Smith, L.B. (1994). A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action. Cambridge, MA: Bradford.
42. Wellman, H. (1990). The child's theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
43. Wimmer, H. & Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition, 13, 103-128.