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Development of Desire Understanding by Children Aged between 2 and 5 Years

SU Yan-jie, YU Tao, FU Li, WANG Yan   

  1. Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871
  • Online:2005-10-15 Published:2005-10-15

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Abstract: Desire understanding is one of the important components of children's theory of mind.5 tasks were used to examine the existence of multi-levels in desire understanding.79 children by Children Aged between 2 and 5 Years participated in these tasks which were simple desire reasoning,desire formation understanding,conflicting desire understanding,own-past desire understanding and other's desire understanding.Results showed that different developmental characteristic in different tasks.All children did much better in own-past desire understanding than that of simple desire reasoning,desire formation understanding,and conflicting desire understanding.And the results also showed other-desire understanding was better than conflicting desire.This research revealed that children's desire understanding contained many aspects,which developed at different pace.

Key words: children, desire understanding, theory of mind

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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