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Competence and Performance in Belief-Desire Reasoning across Two Cultures: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth about False Belief?
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Yazdi, Amir Amin; German, Tim P.; Defeyter, Margaret Anne; Siegal, Michael – Cognition, 2006
There is a change in false belief task performance across the 3-5 year age range, as confirmed in a recent meta-analysis [Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson, J. (2001). Meta-analysis of theory mind development: The truth about false-belief. "Child Development," 72, 655-684]. This meta-analysis identified several performance factors influencing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Performance Factors, Cross Cultural Studies, Meta Analysis
Representational and Executive Selection Resources in "Theory of Mind": Evidence from Compromised Belief-Desire Reasoning in Old Age
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German, Tim P.; Hehman, Jessica A. – Cognition, 2006
Effective belief-desire reasoning requires both specialized representational capacities--the capacity to represent the mental states as such--as well as executive selection processes for accurate performance on tasks requiring the prediction and explanation of the actions of social agents. Compromised belief-desire reasoning in a given population…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Thinking Skills, Older Adults, Young Adults