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Childrenʼs Theory of Mind

2001· article· en· W2330343984 on OpenAlex
Janet Wilde Astington, Terri Barriault

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Bibliographic record

VenueInfants & Young Children · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicChild and Animal Learning Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTheory of mindFeelingFalse beliefPsychologyAutismPerceptionStyle (visual arts)Developmental psychologyCognitive psychologySocial psychologyCognition

Abstract

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Children's theory of mind underlies their ability to explain and predict human behavior by taking into account a person's thoughts and feelings. It develops in the first 5 years of life, beginning with joint attention in infancy. The 3-year-old child understands that there is a difference between thoughts in the mind and things in the world and is aware of people's wants, feelings, and perceptions. The 5-year-old child understands false belief, and realizes that thoughts in the mind may not be true. Some recent work investigated individual differences in theory-of-mind development, showing antecedents of false-belief understanding in general language skills, pretend play, and style of family interaction. There is less work on the consequences of typical theory of mind development, but a large body of work demonstrating the consequences of its absence, particularly in autism. The article discusses the implications of this new area of developmental research for clinical practice and describes a screening tool and a teaching manual.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.115
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it