INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Joint Attention, 6 Years, 18 Months
5 Oct 2020
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Predict another person"s behaviour from knowing that person"s beliefs and intentions. Continuous development, somewhere between 3-5 years although preschoolers fail on false-belief they have some understanding of mental states (understanding desires, emotions etc. ) Majority of children pass unexpected transfer false belief task when they are about 4. From about 2 years of age, children start to use words that refer to internal states of perception or emotion (like want, see, look, taste) Character a has a biscuit, character b thinks about biscuit children are asked which one could be touched or eaten majority of 3-year olds accurately reflected distinction between physical and mental entities. Development of tom around 4 years related to language development those who performed better on false belief tasks also had better language skills. The children who had mothers referring to mental states (terms about desire, belief, and knowledge) performed better on false-belief tasks at age 4.
