studies Flashcards
Perner and Woodruff 1978
ToM
the ability to attribute mental states, emotions, desires, intents belief and knowledge to others and understand these can be different from our own
Tom requires social perceptual knowledfe
Tager-flusber and sullivan 2000
Brethorton and beeghly 1982
appreciation for what a mental state is
Tom requires working memory
Keenan olson and marini 1998
Tom requires inhibitory control
carlson and moses 2001
geocentricism
carlson claxon and moses 2004
sabbiose et al 2006
3-4 FB global
frith 2003
sally anne task 3-4
perter leek man and simmer 1987
smarties test
Riggs et al 2014
must suppress what they know to be true (smarties)
mutter Alcom and welsh 2006
working memory is the best predictor of inhibitory control
Hughes and Devine 2014
challenge the specific contribution of working memory on false belief understanding: and only 8% SHARED VARIANCE BETWEEn the broader faculty of executive function and theory of mind
scott 2011
the ability to meta represent : representing both the situation itself and the way it is represented
Carlson and moses 2001
development of the frontal lobe at age 4
zaithchik 1990
false photograph task: like with false belief tasks shows difficulty with metarepresentation (false photograph taks removes the mental state)
children struggle to dual represent / metarepresent
also when mental state is removed
fundamental problem
perner 1991
meta-representation
represent both the ‘sense’: the way the situation is representing and the ‘referent’ the situation itself
and the relation between these
Butterfill and Apply 2013
minimal theory of mind
3 and 4 year olds can track pieces of information but not have a fully understanding of mental states or belief
rather than representing propositions with reasons and causes
andrews et al 2003
reminding 3 year olds of their false belief does not improve their performance on FBT above chance
suggesting reducing the load of their mind doesn’t help- it’s the underltanding of what a belief is that is lacking