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Small group theory of mind
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Small group theory of mind
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preschoolers' ability to simultaneously maintain multiple agents and their false beliefs
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Cheng
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Michelle
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1989-
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Michelle Cheng
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Leslie
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Alan M
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Alan M Leslie
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chair
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Hemmer
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Pernille
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Pernille Hemmer
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internal member
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Syrett
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Kristen
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Kristen Syrett
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2015
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2015-05
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2015
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eng
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The Sally-Ann task has become the litmus test to determine if preschoolers possess a theory of mind (ToM). However, despite living in a social world where interacting with multiple agents with distinct mental states is the norm, children are only examined for their ability to track a single agent. Furthermore, researchers have adduced that threeyear- olds’ fail to attribute a mental state to a single agent, but because of limited empirical evidence, the types of error that three-year-olds produced in such tasks remain unknown. In the current studies, a multiple agent false belief task was introduced to examine the underlying nature of children’s errors in a false belief task, children’s working memory capacity in tracking multiple agents, and its developmental trajectory. Three- and four-year-olds were successful in tracking three agents with distinct false beliefs (Study 1). But when the number of agents was increased to four, four-year-olds continued to succeed, while three-year-olds’ performance suffered greatly (Study 2). The only consistent error pattern, found across studies and ages, was their attribution of a true belief to all agents, which suggest that errors children make tend to be biased by the true belief.
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Psychology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 41 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy of mind in children
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Cognition in children
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by Michelle Cheng
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3K35WHS
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ETD graduate
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Cheng
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Michelle
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2015-04-07 11:57:47
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Michelle Cheng
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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