Thinking about False Belief: It's Not Just What Children Say, but How Long It Takes Them to Say It

Autor/inn/en	Atance, Cristina M.; Bernstein, Daniel M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N.
Titel	Thinking about False Belief: It's Not Just What Children Say, but How Long It Takes Them to Say It
Quelle	In: Cognition, 116 (2010) 2, S.297-301 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.05.008
Schlagwörter	Reaction Time; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Development; Evaluation Methods; Task Analysis; Data Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reaktionsvermögen; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kognitive Entwicklung; Aufgabenanalyse; Auswertung
Abstract	We examined 240 children's (3.5-, 4.5-, and 5.5-year-olds) latency to respond to questions on a battery of false-belief tasks. Response latencies exhibited a significant cross-over interaction as a function of age and response type (correct vs. incorrect). 3.5-year-olds' "in"correct latencies were faster than their correct latencies, whereas the opposite pattern emerged for 4.5- and 5.5-year-olds. Although these results are most consistent with conceptual change theories of false-belief reasoning, no extant theory fully accounts for our data pattern. We argue that response latency data provide new information about underlying cognitive processes in theory of mind reasoning, and can shed light on concept acquisition more broadly. (Contains 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10