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The development of children's communicative perspective-taking, false belief and inhibitory control

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2014, 27(1), pp.73-94
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

정미옥 1 Hyeon Jin Lee 2

1영남대학교 유아교육과
2영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, we investigated children's development of communicative perspective-taking, false belief, inhibitory control, and further relations among these variables. Ninety-two 3- and 4-year-old children were tested. Children produced the appropriate adjectives in the common-ground condition more often than in the privileged-ground condition, and chose referential targets significantly more often in the privileged-ground condition than in the common-ground condition. Regression analysis revealed that false belief understanding can predict performance in communicative perspective-taking production tasks, while inhibitory control predicts performance in communicative perspective-taking comprehension tasks. This implies that children are sensitive to the perspectives of others in communication, and further, that their communicative perspective-taking ability might be partially related to false belief understanding and inhibitory control.

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