Theory of mind and epistemological development: the relation between children's second-order false-belief understanding and their ability to reason about evidence
Theory of mind and epistemological development: the relation between children's second-order false-belief understanding and their ability to reason about evidence
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心智理论与认识论发展：儿童的二阶错误信念理解与证据推理能力之间的关系
DOI：
10.1016/s0732-118x(02)00005-3
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Homer, B
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作者：
Astington, JW;Pelletier, J;Homer, B
这项研究调查的假设，即儿童的能力，属性的第二阶的信念，促进他们的理解的证据，在区分原因和原因的能力。对74名5-7岁的儿童进行了信念和证据测试。信念测试评估他们的能力，代表和推理，从二阶错误的信念，和证据测试评估他们的能力，以区分一个情况的原因和一个人的理由相信it. The性能之间的关系在这两个测试被确定，考虑到一般的语言和非语言推理能力。结果表明，在信仰测试和证据部分的证据测试的性能显着改善的年龄范围内，并在证据测试成绩的方差占显着比例的二阶错误信念的理解，以上占一般语言和非语言能力。的论点是，二阶错误信念的理解是儿童的认识论发展的基础，不仅是他们对证据的理解，而且他们对推理和真理的理解。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司。保留所有权利。
The study investigates the hypothesis that children's ability to attribute second-order beliefs facilitates their understanding of evidence, as seen in the ability to distinguish between causes and reasons. Seventy-four children 5-7 yr old were given belief and evidence tests. The belief tests assessed their ability to represent and reason from second-order false-beliefs, and the evidence tests assessed their ability to distinguish between the cause of a situation and a person's reason for believing it. The relation between performance on the two tests was determined, taking into account general language and non-verbal reasoning abilities. Results show that performance on the belief test and on the evidence part of the evidence test improved significantly over the age range, and that a significant proportion of variance in the evidence test scores is accounted for by second-order false-belief understanding, over and above that accounted for by general language and non-verbal abilities. The argument is made that second-order false-belief understanding is fundamental to children's epistemological development, underlying not just their understanding of evidence, but also their understanding of inference and truth. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.