Theory of mind

  1. Evaluate one or more strategies used by developmental psychologists to measure theory of mind. [15] 
  • Wimmer and Perner – Maxi and the chocolate task
  • Perner et al. (1987) smarties/pencil task
  • Baron-Cohen – Sally -Anne task
  • Siegal and Beattie – Look-first question
  • Wellman meta-analysis
  • Clement and Perner – explicit and implicit knowledge (eye tracking data)
  • Does looking longer actually mean they have a well developed theory of mind as its not illustrating that they know what the actor is thinking.
  • Language training helped children to pass FB tasks  Hale and Tager – Flusberg/
  1. Discuss the concept of responsibility with reference to research into theory of mind . [15]
  1. To what extent has theory of mind research helped to promote change? [15]
  1. Evaluate research into the research into theory of mind with reference to  causality? [15]
  • Cross-sectional versus longitudinal designs
  • Weismann et al. (2018) longitudinal study with the bear and the telephone and the eye tracker.
  1. Compare and contrast two or more perspectives taken by psychologists when investigating theory of mind . [15]
  1. Discuss the role of bias in research investigating theory of mind. [15]