Theories of mind in transition: A microgenetic study of the development of false belief understanding

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-172

  Amsterlaw, Jennifer ^a,b   Wellman, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; THINKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746110457     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0702_1     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Appleton, M., & Reddy, V (1996). Teaching 3-year-olds to pass false belief tests: A conversational approach. Social Development, 5, 275-291.
2. Baddeley, A. D., & Longman, D. J. (1978). The influence of length and frequency of training session on the rate of learning to type. Ergonomics, 21, 627-635.
3. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
4. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Bartsch, K., & Wellman, H. M. (1989). Young children's attribution of action to beliefs and desires. Child Development, 60, 946-964.
6. Bartsch, K., & Wellman, H. M. (1995). Children talk about the mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Clements, W A., Rustin, C., & McCallum, S. (2000). Promoting the transition from implicit to explicit understanding: A training study of false belief. Developmental Science, 3, 88-92.
8. Dunn, J., Brown, J. R., & Beardsall, L. (1991). Family talk about feeling states and children's later understanding of others' emotions. Developmental Psychology, 27, 448-455.
9. Dunn, J., Brown, J. R., Slomkowski, C., Tesla, C., & Youngblade, L. (1991). Young children's understanding of other people's feelings and beliefs: Individual differences and their antecedents. Child Development, 62, 1352-1366.
10. Flavell, J. H., Green, F., & Flavell, E. (1986). Development of knowledge about the appearance-reality distinction. Monographs of the society for research in child development, 51 (1, Serial No. 212).
11. Flavell, J. H., & Miller, P. H. (1998). Social cognition. In D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2. Cognition, perception, and language development (5th ed., pp. 851-898). New York: Wiley.
12. Flynn, E., O'Malley, C., & Wood, D. (2004). A longitudinal, microgenetic study of the emergence of false belief understanding and inhibition skills. Developmental Science, 7, 103-115.
13. Gopnik, A., & Astington, J. (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.
14. 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). New York: Cambridge University Press.
15. Guajardo, N. R. (1999, March). Does discourse cause theory of mind development? Poster presented at biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
16. Harris, P. L., Johnson, C. N., Hutton, D., Andrews, G., & Cooke, T. (1989). Young children's theory of mind and emotion, Cognition and Emotion, 3, 379-400.
17. Knoll, M., & Charman, T. (2000). Teaching false belief and visual perspective taking skills in young children: Can a theory of mind be trained? Child Study Journal, 30, 273-304.
18. Kuhn, D. (1995). Microgenetic study of change: What has it told us? Psychological Science, 6, 133-139.
19. Leslie, A. M. (1994). Pretending and believing: Issues in the theory of ToMM. Cognition, 50, 211-238.
20. Lohmann, H., & Tomasello, M. (2003). The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: A training study. Child Development, 74, 1130-1144.
21. Miller, P. H., & Coyle, T. R. (1999). Developmental change: Lessons from microgenesis. In E. K. Scholnick (Ed.), Conceptual development: Piaget's legacy (pp. 209-239). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
22. O'Neill, D., & Gopnik, A. (1991). Young children's ability to identify the sources of their beliefs. Developmental Psychology, 27, 390-397.
23. Perner, J., Leekam, S., & Wimmer, H. (1987). Three-year-olds' difficulty understanding false belief: Representational limitation, lack of knowledge or pragmatic misunderstanding. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 125-137.
24. Peterson, C. C., & Siegal, M. (1995). Deafness, conversation and theory of mind. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, 459-474.
25. Pratt, C., & Bryant, P. (1990). Young children understand that looking leads to knowing (so long as they are looking into a single barrel). Child Development, 61, 973-982.
26. Sabbagh, M. A., & Callanan, M. A. (1998). Metarepresentation in action: 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' developing theories of mind in parent-child conversations. Developmental Psychology, 34, 491-502.
27. Siegler, R. S. (1976). Three aspects of cognitive development. Cognitive Psychology, 8, 481-520.
28. Siegler, R. S. (1995). How does change occur: A microgenetic study of number conservation. Cognitive Psychology, 28, 225-273.
29. Siegler, R. S., & Crowley, K. (1991). The microgenetic method: A direct means for studying cognitive development. American Psychologist, 46, 606-620.
30. Siegler, R. S., & Svetina, M. (2002). A microgenetic/cross-sectional study of matrix completion: Comparing short-term and long-term change. Child Development, 73, 793-809.
31. Slaughter, V. (1998). Children's understanding of pictorial and mental representations. Child Development, 69, 321-332.
32. Slaughter, V, & Gopnik, A. (1996). Conceptual coherence in the child's theory of mind: Training children to understand belief. Child Development, 67, 2967-2988.
33. Taylor, M. (1996). A theory of mind perspective on social cognitive development. In R. Gelman & T. Au (Eds.), Perceptual and cognitive development (pp. 283-329). San Diego, CA: Academic.
34. Wahl, S. (2001, August). Three-year-olds' development in theory of mind: A microgenetic study. Paper presented at the 10th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden.
35. Wellman, H. M. (2002). Understanding the psychological world: Developing a theory of mind. In U. Goswami (Ed.), Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development (pp. 167-187). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
36. Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson, J. (2001). Meta-analysis of theory-of-mind development: The truth about false belief. Child Development, 72, 655-584.
37. 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.