幼儿心理理论发展的一般认知基础--不同心理理论任务表现的特异性与一致性

本研究试图探究中国幼儿心理理论发展的一般变化趋势,通过探查90位3～5岁幼儿在不同心理理论任务表现的特殊性及内在一致性,结果表明：3～5岁间幼儿的心理理论发生急剧变化;幼儿在各任务上的表现总体上存在某种潜在的一致性;但他们在不同任务上的表现存在较大差异,这表明心理理论表现具有显著的任务特异性。

A Study of the General Cognitive Basis of "Theory-of-Mind"-The Potential Coherence and the Task-Specificity of Preschoolers; Performance in Various ToM Tasks

The general developmental trend of young Chinese children's "theory of mind" (ToM) was investigated in this study. Ninety 3-5-year-olds were chosen as the subjects, and their performance in four types of ToM tasks was tested and compared. The results showed that: 1) during 3 to 5 years of age, young children's ToM developed rapidly; 2) there was some potential coherence of performance in those four tasks, which might imply that there was some common substrate underlying young children's performance in various ToM tasks;3) on the other hand, there was great difference of young children' s performance in various ToM tasks, which mightsuggest that their performance was evidently task-specific.