True or false: Do 5-year-olds understand belief?

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1402-1416

  Fabricius, William V ^a   Boyer, Ty W ^b   Weimer, Amy A ^c   Carroll, Kathleen ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

False belief; Inference neglect task; Perceptual access hypothesis; Theory of mind; True belief

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649269233     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017648     Document Type: Article

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