Executive Functioning and Preschoolers' Understanding of False Beliefs, False Photographs, and False Signs

Autor/inn/en	Sabbagh, Mark A.; Moses, Louis J.; Shiverick, Sean
Titel	Executive Functioning and Preschoolers' Understanding of False Beliefs, False Photographs, and False Signs
Quelle	In: Child Development, 77 (2006) 4, S.1034-1049 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00917.x
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Beliefs; Photography; Visual Aids; Signs; Prediction; Performance; Cognitive Development; Child Development; Cognitive Processes; Correlation; Comprehension + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Belief; Glaube; Fotografie; Anschauungsmaterial; Zeichensystem; Vorhersage; Achievement; Leistung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Korrelation; Verstehen; Verständnis
Abstract	Two studies were conducted to investigate the specificity of the relationship between preschoolers' emerging executive functioning skills and false belief understanding. Study 1 (N=44) showed that 3- to 5-year-olds' performance on an executive functioning task that required selective suppression of actions predicted performance on false belief tasks, but not on false photograph tasks. Study 2 (N=54) replicated the finding from Study 1 and showed that performance on the executive functioning task also predicted 3- to 5-year-olds' performance on false sign tasks. These findings show that executive functioning is required to reason only about representations that are intended to reflect a true state of affairs. Results are discussed with respect to theories of preschoolers' theory-of-mind development. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10