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| Theory of Mind: "Theory of Mind" (ToM), refers to the ability to be aware that other people or animals have their own thoughts, beliefs, intentions and emotions, which may differ from your own. It is about understanding that the mental states of others can influence their actions and decisions. The term comes from Daniel Dennett (Dennett, D. (1978). Beliefs about beliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 568-570). It has been further developed by many authors in psychology, including Premack, Woodruff, Perner and Baron-Cohen._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Educational Psychology on Theory of Mind - Dictionary of Arguments
Upton I 102 Theory of Mind/Educational psychology/Upton: An important area of cognitive development that takes place during the school years is children’s understanding of mental states; they develop what is known as a theory of mind. Theory of mind refers to the understanding that other people may have different thoughts, knowledge, desires, feelings and beliefs (Harris, 2006)(1). Even preschoolers try to attribute knowledge and mental states to others; however, it is not until around the age of four years that children are thought to demonstrate a coherent theory of mind (Gopnik, 1993)(2). Some theorists argue that this ability demonstrates a qualitative shift in children’s thinking (e.g. Wellman and Gelman, 1998)(3). However, others disagree, arguing that the tasks used to test for theory of mind underestimate children’s abilities (Siegal and Peterson, 1994)(4). >False Belief Task/Educational psychology, >False Belief Task/Happé. 1.Harris, PL (2006) Social cognition, in Kuhn, D and Siegler, R (eds) Handbook Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th edn). New York: Wiley. 2. Gopnik, A (1993) How we know our minds: the illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16: 1–14. 3. Wellman, HM and Gelman, SA (1998) Knowledge acquisition in foundational domains, in Kuhn, D and Siegler, RS (eds) Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 2: Cognition, perception, and language (5th edn). New York: Wiley. 4. Siegal, M and Peterson, CC (1994) Children’s theory of mind and the conversational territory of cognitive development, in Lewis, C and Mitchell, P (eds) Origins of an Understanding of Mind. Hove: England: Erlbaum._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
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