Title: Perspective taking and belief attribution : from Piaget's theory to children's theory of mind
Abstract:I come from a background in which the object of study of psychology is as much human behavior as conscious phenomena or mental processes (Janet, 1946). The emergence about fifteen years ago of a new r...I come from a background in which the object of study of psychology is as much human behavior as conscious phenomena or mental processes (Janet, 1946). The emergence about fifteen years ago of a new research trend concerned with the study of the development of a of in the young child appeared as quite surprising to me and at the time I confess having been at a loss to find any novelty in the approach. The initial project of this trend was to determine at what age the child acquires an adult-like understanding of human behaviors i.e.: through a naive or common type of psychology that con- siders behavior as determined (causally) by the interactions between beliefs, knowledge or de- sires or in other teens between mental states (in- tentional states, propositional attitudes, mental representations, etc.). Until now most of the research carried out under the Theory of mind label has concerned the capacity of the young child to attribute to oth- ers beliefs different from his own and to predict or manipulate the behavior of others according to these beliefs. A majority of studies convey the impression of studying a new field of researchRead More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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