Theory of mind and the origins of divergent thinking
Theory of mind and the origins of divergent thinking
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心智理论和发散思维的起源
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1997
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通讯作者：
C. Fletcher
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T. Suddendorf;C. Fletcher
“心智理论”的发展不仅对于理解他人的心智，而且对于运用自己的心智都是重要的。为了调查这一假设，40名年龄在3岁到4岁之间的儿童被安排了错误信念和创造力的任务。研究发现，创造力测试中适当反应和原始反应的数量与错误信念任务的表现呈正相关。这种联系是强有力的，因为即使在年龄和言语智力被分开的情况下，这种联系仍然是强大和重要的。研究结果支持这一假设，即心理理论中涉及的元表征技能也会影响儿童在当前激活的内容(即发散思维)之外获取和扫描自己的心理曲目的方式。随着心理理论的出现，人类发展中发生了一种基本的认知转变，认知进化也有可能发生。
The development of a `theory of mind' may not only be important for understanding the minds of others but also for using one's own mind. To investigate this supposition, forty children between the ages of three and four were given false-belief and creativity tasks. The numbers of appropriate and of original responses in the creativity test were found to correlate positively with performance on false-belief tasks. This association was robust, as it continued to be strong and significant even when age and verbal intelligence were partialled out. The results support the hypothesis that the metarepresentational skills involved in theory of mind also affect the way children can access and scan their own mental repertoire beyond the areas of currently activated content (i.e. divergent thinking). With the advent of theory of mind a basic cognitive shift takes place in human development, and possibly took place in cognitive evolution.