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Perner, Josef, Stummer, Sandra, Sprung, Manuel and Doherty, Martin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892
(2002)
Theory of mind finds its Piagetian perspective: Why alternative naming comes with understanding belief.
Cognitive Development, 17 (3-4).
pp. 1451-1472.
ISSN 0885-2014
Abstract
In the last of a series of experiments 48 3-5-year old children were tested on an alternative naming game with "synonyms," e.g., if puppet calls the depicted item a "rabbit" the child has to call it a "bunny," or the child has to judge puppet's performance when roles are reversed. The game was also played with categories (rabbit-animal), name/colour (rabbit-black), colour/colour (black-white), and part/part (head-tail). The younger children (=3.5 years) had severe problems with "synonyms" and categories (alternative names for the items, 80% correct). Children's increasing success with age on the alternative names tasks was closely paralleled (.53 = r = .72) by their mastery of the false belief task in which they had to predict that a mistaken story character would look for a desired object in the wrong location. For explaining the synchrony between alternative naming and understanding false belief we draw on the Piagetian idea that children come to represent perspective at some point in their development. To apply this idea to the alternative naming game we draw on the philosophical discussion about sortals (terms that specify what sort of object something is) creating perspective differences.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2023 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54882 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00127-2 |
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