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The Status of Language in the Development of a Theory of Mind
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THE STATUS OF LANGUAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORY OF MIND NENE HARRISON MA Linguistics May 1st 2002 Tutor: Neil Smith The study of the development of 'theory of mind' skills in children became popular when the false-belief task was invented in the 1980's, providing cognitive scientists with the focus of a clear experimental paradigm. This tested the ability of the young child to attribute false beliefs to others in order to explain their actions. Researchers then began to investigate the developmental stages through which children acquire these theory of mind abilities. This essay will examine the nature of this acquisition process, studying two opposing views of theory of mind development in the young child; whether it can be explained by the modular nature of the cognitive process, where the ability is innate but must be triggered by input from the child's environment, or whether it exists as a developing theory, a set of causal...
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