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Mind Map by Elizabeth.T.Hill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elizabeth.T.Hill
over 10 years ago
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Understanding theory of mind and explain why children fail theory of mind tasks
- TOM: understanding that other people have minds that are different from your own
- Precursors to TOM:
- Joint Attention: realise what adults are looking at and check by looking if they could also be interested
- social referencing: e.g. pointing to direct attention
- Joint Attention: realise what adults are looking at and check by looking if they could also be interested
- Key Skills in TOM development:
- "seeing leads to knowing"
- intentional VS accidental = see difference when comes to punishment - if intentional should be harder punished
- "seeing leads to knowing"
- predicting others intentions:
- complete VS incomplete actions = 12 months copy VS 18 months copy and complete the action
- Meltzoff 1995
- Meltzoff 1995
- complete VS incomplete actions = 12 months copy VS 18 months copy and complete the action
- understanding desires:
- 2 yr olds = Broccoli Task = Broccoli VS Biscuits
- at 2 yrs can make decisions about what others want even if not what they wnat
- at 2 yrs can make decisions about what others want even if not what they wnat
- 2-3 yr olds = strat understanding.....imagination, dreams, shadows = understand have mental experience as well as physical
- 3 yr olds can explain others behaviours while using own beliefs
- 2 yr olds = Broccoli Task = Broccoli VS Biscuits
- False Belief understanding
- children with a mature mind will know whatt others will think about the false belief task - hiding the ball
- appearance/reality task, which is in the smarties box - smarties or pencils
- children with a mature mind will know whatt others will think about the false belief task - hiding the ball
- What Skills is TOM necessary for?
- deception and lying (autism cannot do) - without mature TOM cannot understand lying
- to successfully deceive someone need to understand: seeing leads to knowing and people can be wrong if the situation changes without their knowledge
- deception is rudimentary at first but quickly becomes sophisticated
- to successfully deceive someone need to understand: seeing leads to knowing and people can be wrong if the situation changes without their knowledge
- deception and lying (autism cannot do) - without mature TOM cannot understand lying
- Why does autism lead to TOM deficets?
- lack the ability to distinguish between what exists in the mind and what exists in reality
- impaired that something can have 2 functions - dinosaur pen, "what is the brain for?" - will say physical reasons but not mental (imagination, dreams)
- impaired in seeing leads to knowing
- impaired in appearance VS reality
- lack the ability to distinguish between what exists in the mind and what exists in reality
- Social Skills:
- we lie to.....avoid awarkardness, avoid punishment, maintain relationships, please other people and satisfy ourselves
- women find it easier to lie and are better at it - faster and more efficient and more credible
- we lie to.....avoid awarkardness, avoid punishment, maintain relationships, please other people and satisfy ourselves
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