If so, mind - mindedness isn't so much the cause of attachment security and early proficiency in
the false belief task.
Appropriate mind - minded talk at 12 months predicted a child's mastery of
the false belief task at age 4 (Laranjo et al 2014).
One important test is
the false belief task, which asks a child to distinguish between what's really true, and what another (mistaken) person believes to be true.
After obtaining baseline measures of
false belief task performance in some 3 - year - olds, Heidemarie Lohman and Michael Tomasello divided the children in two groups.
This task was modified from the Sally - Anne Task, a well - known first - order
false belief task.
Kids trained with mental state language performed better on
the false belief task.
After obtaining baseline measures of
false belief task performance in some 3 - year - olds, Heidemarie Lohman and Michael Tomasello divided the children in two groups.
For instance, consider
this false belief task administered by Meins and Fernyhough (1999).
In a similarly - designed study, researchers found that appropriate mind - minded talk in infancy predicted, at 51 months, both a child's emotion understanding and his or her performance on
a false belief task (Centifanti et al 2015).
Appropriate mind - minded talk at 12 months predicted a child's mastery of
the false belief task at age 4 (Laranjo et al 2014).
Not exact matches
Moreover, after a two - year period during which early signers improved their NSL knowledge, they performed better at the
false -
belief task.
These studies found that maternal attachment security predicted the child's ability to identify painful emotions, to cope with challenging circumstances (Steele et al., 2002), to recognize emotions, especially negative ones (Laible and Thompson, 1998; Steele et al., 1999, 2003, 2008), and to solve
false -
belief tasks (Fonagy and Target, 1997).