Young Children's Psychological Explanations and Their Relationship to Perception- and Intention-Understanding

Autor/inn/en	Colonnesi, Cristina; Koops, Willem; Meerum Terwogt, Mark
Titel	Young Children's Psychological Explanations and Their Relationship to Perception- and Intention-Understanding
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 17 (2008) 2, S.163-179 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7219
DOI	10.1002/icd.548
Schlagwörter	Theory of Mind; Intention; Young Children; Child Psychology; Comprehension; Behavior; Difficulty Level; Beliefs; Perceptual Development; Foreign Countries; Observation; Perspective Taking; Visual Stimuli; Visual Perception; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Kinderpsychologie; Verstehen; Verständnis; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Belief; Glaube; Wahrnehmungsentwicklung; Ausland; Beobachtung; Zukunftsperspektive; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Italien
Abstract	The present study examined two key aspects of young children's ability to explain human behaviour in a mentalistic way. First, we explored desires that are of a level of difficulty comparable with that of false beliefs. For this purpose, the so-called "alternative desires" were created. Second, we examined how children's psychological explanations are related to their understanding of perception and intention. A perception-understanding task, an intention-understanding task and a psychological-explanation task were administered to 80 three-year-olds. Results offer support for the thesis that the level of difficulty of belief and desire explanations is comparable. Moreover, children's psychological explanations are related to their understanding of perception and intention. The results lend support to the idea that mentalistic explanations are an explicit manifestation of children's level of theory of mind. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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