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Theory of mind - Coggle Diagram
Theory of mind
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False belief
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- Belief is a mental representation
- Mental representation can be wrong
- Not corresponds to reality
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Autism
- People with autism can't have mental representation
- Might fail false belief task, but pass test that isn't mentally related
- Poor performance in Smarties and Sally-ann tasks compared to other disorders
- Domain-specific deficit to the mind
- They have difficulties understanding theory of mind
- Difficulties in social communication and imagination
- It’s a domain-specific deficit only autism has (Baron-Cohen et al.,1985; Perner et al., 1989)
- Performance between mental and non-mental representation tasks
- either fail both or pass both
Not a specific deficit in understanding mental representation
- they have a general deficit - (Ioa & Leekham, 2014)
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Theories
Leslie (1987)
- Observed pretend play
- Thinks its impossible for pretend play if they don't know differences between different representations
- Meta-representation - understand what's in someone else's mind
- Believes we are born with ability to pretend play
- there's a timetable to we develop the skills
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Perspective of mind
- Piaget may have underestimated children's ability
- Could be due to unfamiliar task