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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"false belief"”.
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On the preschooler's problem with the false belief task
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1989.
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Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato
… beneficial for non-philosophers. On my reading, false beliefs and defective forms of reasoning can benefit everyone in two ways. First, there are commitments--to care for the health of your soul, to care for the well-being of other human beings--that a person needs to have in order to live well, …
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Theory of Mind Reasoning and its Relationship to Executive and Social Functioning in 10-Year-Olds
… studies have distinguished inferencing about beliefs (cognitive ToM) and emotions (affective ToM). ToM has also been associated with executive and social functioning. The current study examined advanced cognitive and affective ToM in 10-year-olds (N = 56) using false-belief and irony tasks. In …
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Ich weiß etwas, was du nicht weißt... : die Entwicklung der sozial-kognitiven Perspektivenübernahme bei blindgeborenen Kindern
… in der Lage sind, wenn man diese Fähigkeit mit false-belief-Aufgaben überprüft, die ihren taktilen und auditiven Wahrnehmungsmöglichkeiten entsprechen. Diese blindenadäquaten Aufgaben wurden im Rahmen der Untersuchung selbst entwickelt und mit 47 geburtsblinden Kindern (aus Deutschland und …
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Interpersonal influences on young children's understanding of mind
… facilitated young children's understanding of false belief. The fluent knowledge of a second language was similarly found to facilitate young children's ability to remember their own previous false belief, as well as their ability to understand the appearance-reality distinction. Although the …
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Children's Moral Reasoning about Attribution of Intentions: The Influence of Gender Stereotypes and Theory of Mind
… how holding gender stereotypes and having a false belief theory of mind impacts children's understanding of intentionality when evaluating morally relevant stories. Children 3 - 4, 5 - 6, and 7 - 8-years-of-age (N = 127) were interviewed about the intentions of a potential transgressor in two …
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Language-specificity and young preschoolers' social-cognitive development
… of social understanding, in particular false-belief understanding (e.g., Carlson & Moses, 2001; Sabbagh, Xu, Carlson, Moses, & Lee, 2006). However, research on Korean children did not support the view on the general development between the two cognitive skills (e.g., Oh & Lewis; 2008). …
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Metacognitive development and the disambiguation effect in monolingual and bilingual children
… conversational partner after they pass standard false belief tasks. Both abilities have been attributed to the understanding of perspective. The aim of the studies was to extend previous research to examine the disambiguation effect, children’s tendency to select an unfamiliar object in the …
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Environmental and Cognitive Factors Influencing Children's Theory-of-mind Development
… advanced theory-of-mind understanding such as false belief requires both. However, optimal effects of child language on false-belief understanding occurred when children also had high levels of conflict inhibition ability. These findings suggest that effects of child language on false belief …
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Mind reading as behaviour reading: Behavour analysis and perspective taking
… analysis, I hypothesised that a common false-belief task, the Sally-Anne test, can be represented and evaluated purely by using the concept of stimulus control. I used a conditional discrimination task in which reinforcement for identifying an individual’s false belief depended on a …
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Zur Entwicklung des Verstehens von Wünschen und Überzeugungen : Elemente der kindlichen "Theory of Mind"
… Überzeugungsverstehen wurde mit der klassischen False-Belief- und Representational-Change-Aufgaben erfasst. Die Erhebung des Wunschverstehens erfolgte mit Aufgaben, die strukturell der False-Belief-Aufgabe glichen. <br>In einer Längsschnittstudie wurden 42 Kinder im Alter von 3,5 Jahren sieben …
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Self-respect and The Obligation to Resist Oppression
… for the oppressed to affirm the oppressors' false beliefs. Affirming the oppressor's false belief causes the oppressed person to disrespect themself. In order to understand why we must first understand what things contribute to our self-respect. Our ability to respect ourselves depends on …
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Origins of empathy development in infancy
… by examining the neural correlates underlying false belief (FB) processing in 15-monthold infants. Using a passive non-verbal FB task, 15-month-old infants were presented with sequences of images depicting a character acting congruently (FBc) or incongruently (FBi) to her false belief about an …
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The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach
… salvation embodies idolatry of the market and false belief in the saving power of human institutions. Depending solely on education for individual economic salvation overburdens formal schooling at the expense of considering other communal approaches to economic and social justice. An …
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Blake's Buildings: Poetry and the Reshaping of Epistemology
… and that the nemesis of Blake's project is not false belief but self-righteousness---the belief that we have (or can have) access to the one true form of reality, which legitimates our desire to destroy or silence other worldviews in the name of truth. Blake's ideal is humane discourse, not …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
… new data conflicting with a resistant first belief about the self. This leads to the formation of the self-deceived false belief. Part II of the thesis looks at the moral responsibility of self-deceivers for harmful actions based on their self-deceived false beliefs. The central argument is …
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Theory of Mind Dynamics in Children's Play: A Qualitative Inquiry in a Preschool Classroom
… studies utilizing several tasks, such as false belief tasks. Since children's emerging understanding of self and others is a complex process of entering a community of theories of mind (Nelson, Henseler, & Plesa, 2000), it is important to expand our understanding of children's theories of …
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Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology
… states. The first, Baron- Cohen et al. 's (1985) false belief test, shows how cognitive modelling can be used to compare different theories of common-sense psychology. The second study, Searle's (1980) `Chinese Room', shows 'that this same model can reproduce the patterns of scientific intuitions …
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Infants' Understanding of Goal Directed Behavior
… infants also be able to incorporate others' beliefs when making sense of their behavior? 15-month-old infants were found to succeed at versions of both true and false belief tasks; when a toy changed locations and an actor reached for the toy in its new location, infants looked longer when …
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Cognitive predictors of aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance across early childhood: the role of cool and hot executive function and theory of mind
… of gratification), ToM (first- and second-order false belief understanding) and verbal ability. Teacher reports of children’s proactive and reactive, physical and relational aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance were obtained at each time point and Peer reports were gathered at Time …
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