Universidad de Girona (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2013;16:E6. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2013.8.
A total of 104 children aged between 41 and 47 months were selected to study the relationship between language and false belief understanding. Participants were assigned to four different training conditions: discourse, labelling, control (all with deceptive objects), and sentential complements (involving non-deceptive objects). Post-test results showed an improvement in children's false belief understanding in the discourse and the labelling conditions, but not in the sentential complements with non-deceptive objects or the control group. Furthermore, the most remarkable improvement in false belief understanding occurred in the labelling group. These results suggest that some types of linguistic experience promote the development of false belief understanding, provided that differing perspectives are confronted.
共有 104 名年龄在 41 到 47 个月之间的儿童被选来研究语言和错误信念理解之间的关系。参与者被分配到四个不同的训练条件中：话语、标签、控制（均为欺骗性物体）和关系从句（涉及非欺骗性物体）。后测结果显示，在话语和标签条件下，儿童的错误信念理解有所提高，但在不涉及欺骗性物体的关系从句和控制组中则没有提高。此外，在错误信念理解方面，标签组的提高最为显著。这些结果表明，某些类型的语言经验可以促进错误信念理解的发展，前提是要面对不同的观点。
