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Children's understanding of false belief in humans and animals
dc.creator | Saunders, Katherine Nuttall | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:54:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:54:12Z | |
dc.date.created | 1998 | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1998-THESIS-S28 | |
dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references: p. 49-53. | en |
dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Children are believed to develop an understanding that others can maintain and act upon a false belief by the age of four; however, there is some controversy as to how exactly children develop this "understanding." This study compared three-year-olds' and four-year-olds' abilities to correctly identify a false belief in both an animal and a human. I found that using an animal as an actor in a false belief task increased the likelihood of three-year-olds passing the task. Results are discussed in terms of the possible implications that the effect of varying the situation in which a child makes a prediction of false belief, such as altering the actor used, has for the four main theories of theory of mind development: Modularity, "Theory-Theory", Simulation, and Vygotskian. | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.subject | psychology | en |
dc.subject | Major psychology | en |
dc.title | Children's understanding of false belief in humans and animals | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | psychology | en |
thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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