Psychological Development and Education ›› 2003, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (4): 7-11.

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The Development of Theory of Mind and Its Relations with Inhibitory Control

XU Fen1, WANG Wei-xing1, GAO Shan1, Mark Sabbagh2   

  1. 1. School of psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Queen's University, Canada
  • Online:2003-10-15 Published:2003-10-15

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Abstract: The present study examined the developmental level of Theory of Mind(Tom for short)between 3-and 4-year olds and whether there is any relationship between the performance of false-belief task and inhibitory control task.The results showed that there is a significant change between 3-and 4-year olds,and the children's who gave correct answer in false-belief task did better in inhibitory conflict task than those who had wrong responses in false2 belief task.Moreover,there were significant correlations between the score in task of false-belief and in the task of inhibitory conflict except for false-belief of others.

Key words: false-belief, theory of mind, Inhibitory control, executive function

CLC Number: 

  • B842.12
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