Sentences with phrase «false belief tests»

Pyers's team showed both groups videos of false belief tests and asked them to answer by pointing at one of two images.

Because the gorillas seem to be taking account of the thoughts of others, they are showing some theory of mind competence, says Byrne, although they do not pass a standard theory - of - mind test called the false belief test, which looks at the ability to infer another's perspective.

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If there was a system for detecting false beliefs that would surely be on the list of tests to be done.

These claims can be true or false, and the truthfulness or falsehood of them are independent of ones beliefs, the scientific method is the only method we have invented to actively try to test, even falsify, or hypothesis.

They also tested children's understanding of false beliefs.

In the study, she and her colleagues found that 30 - and 33 - month - old toddlers were able to successfully demonstrate false - belief understanding using a modified version of a well - known test.

With her ongoing research, Baillargeon hopes to identify the necessary conditions for young children to succeed at more difficult versions of false - belief tests.

Called the Sally - Anne test, the experiment evaluates a child's expectations of how someone will act based on that person's false beliefs.

She hypothesizes that toddlers fail at traditional false - belief understanding tests because the test design overwhelms their ability to pay attention and respond appropriately.

Unlike previous false - belief tests for great apes, this one doesn't involve food, which has the unintended consequence of also testing their self - control, Krupenye says.

In many countries there has been a constant increase in testing and the use of test results to set targets for teachers and schools, in the false belief that this will improve learning.

Various portfolio management and «accountability» regimes depend almost entirely on this false belief that test scores reveal which are the good and bad schools.

They also tested children's understanding of false beliefs.

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.