School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Infant Behav Dev. 2012 Dec;35(4):719-26. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.07.012. Epub 2012 Sep 14.
This study investigated relations between mother and child (N=49) mental-state talk during shared pretense and children's social symbolic play at age 3. Social symbolic play was not related to mothers' mental-state talk. In contrast, children's own use of desire-state talk in shared pretense was a better predictor of social symbolic play than their general use of mental-state talk, even after accounting for general verbal ability as well as mothers' use of desires terms.
These results highlight for the first time a link between children's references to desires and their performance on social symbolic play at age 3 years - a social cognitive ability thought to precede theory of mind.
本研究调查了母子（共 49 名）在共同假装游戏中谈论心理状态与儿童 3 岁时的社会象征性游戏之间的关系。社会象征性游戏与母亲的心理状态谈话无关。相比之下，孩子在共同假装中使用欲望状态语言的情况比他们一般使用心理状态语言更能预测社会象征性游戏，即使在考虑了一般语言能力以及母亲使用欲望术语的情况后也是如此。
这些结果首次强调了儿童对欲望的提及与他们在 3 岁时的社会象征性游戏表现之间的联系——这是一种被认为先于心理理论的社会认知能力。
