Chapter 9

Question 1

False Belief

Answer 1

The child’s mistaken understanding that a naive or uninformed observer has the same information (and thus the same beliefs) as the child

Question 2

Guided Participation

Answer 2

Process by which a skilled collaborator transfers knowledge to a learner by providing support and gradually withdrawing it

Question 3

Intersubjectivity

Answer 3

Mutual attention and shared communication that take place between two individuals

Question 4

Realism

Answer 4

Inability to distinguish between mental and physical entities

Question 5

Referential Communication

Answer 5

Communication in situations that require the child to describe an object to a listener or evaluate the effectiveness of a message

Question 6

Representational Insight

Answer 6

The child’s ability to understand that a symbol or model can stand for a real life event

Question 7

Script

Answer 7

Organized scheme or framework for commonly experienced events

Question 8

Social Cognition

Answer 8

Thinking processes that are relevant to the social world

Question 9

Social Refercing

Answer 9

Looking to another individual for emotional cues in interpreting strange or ambiguous events

Question 10

Theory of Mind

Answer 10

Awareness of the concept of mental states, both one’s own and those of others