2.False Belief Tasks

Flashcards reviewing key concepts and research findings related to the development of false belief understanding in children.

What age do children in Western cultures typically pass false-belief tasks?

Around the age of 5 years, with minor variations depending on the task.

What was a possible reason for mixed findings of cross-cultural studies on age of passing False Belief tasks?

Varying methods used in different cultures.

What was the main finding of Callaghan et al. (2005) study on mental-state reasoning across five cultures?

Synchrony in the onset of mentalistic reasoning, with children crossing the FB milestone at approximately 5 years in all studied cultures.

What cultures were studied in Callaghan et al (2005)?

Canada, India, Peru, Samoa, and Thailand.

What correlation was identified in the Grosse Wiesmann et al. (2016) study regarding explicit and implicit false belief tasks?

Explicit and implicit FB tasks don’t correlate.

According to Grosse Wiesmann et al. (2016), what cognitive abilities correlate with explicit FB tasks?

Syntactic and executive functions.

What conclusion did Grosse Wiesmann et al. (2016) make about implicit FB tasks?

The processes underlying implicit FB tasks are different from later-developing explicit FB understanding.