Children&#039;s understanding of gaze-direction and its relation with theory of mind (아동의 시선이해 발달과 마음이론과의 관계)

김경미; Ghim, Hei-rhee (김혜리); Myung-Sook Chung (정명숙); Haeyoung Yang (양혜영); Jaisun Koo (구재선); 차재연

Children's understanding of gaze-direction and its relation with theory of mind

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2007, 20(2), pp.1-16
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

김경미 ¹, Ghim, Hei-rhee ¹, Myung-Sook Chung ², Haeyoung Yang ¹, Jaisun Koo ³, 차재연 ¹

¹충북대학교
²꽃동네대학교
³중앙대학교

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This study aimed at examining children's ability to understand gaze-direction and its relation with theory of mind. Specifically, we investigated the ability to understand gaze-direction as a mental state represented by the external world. Eighty 3-, 4-, 5-, 7-year old children participated in this study. Children were presented with five different kinds of gaze-direction tasks, along with appearance-reality and false-belief to see whether the gaze-direction would relate to those tasks, which have been used to assess the child’s theory of mind and his representational understanding. The result showed that the child’s ability to represent gaze-direction increased with age and the performance on the gaze-direction task (looking-at-you) were significantly correlated with that of appearance-reality and false-belief. The result suggests that children develop representational understanding of gaze-direction between 3 and 4 years old. The significant correlation between gaze-direction task (looking-at-you) and false-belief task implies that representational understanding of gaze-direction would develop as a part of theory of mind.

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gaze-direction, representational understanding of mind, theory of mind, false-belief

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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