Sodian Beate, Kristen-Antonow Susanne
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.
Dev Psychol. 2015 Sep;51(9):1190-200. doi: 10.1037/dev0000039. Epub 2015 Jul 20.
Theories of social-cognitive development have attributed a foundational role to declarative joint attention. The present longitudinal study of 83 children, who were assessed on a battery of social-cognitive tasks at multiple measurement points from the age of 12 to 50 months, tested a predictive model of theory of mind (false-belief understanding). Thereby, declarative, but not imperative, point production predicted false-belief understanding at 50 months. Predictive relations, which remained significant beyond the influence of child gender and language abilities, and were unrelated to child temperament and emotion recognition, were not mediated by mirror self-recognition or Level 1 visual perspective taking, which were both related to joint attention. These findings conform to theoretical predictions and provide empirical support for conceptual continuity in the social domain.
社会认知发展理论认为陈述性联合注意具有基础性作用。本纵向研究对83名儿童进行了跟踪，从12个月到50个月期间在多个测量点对他们进行了一系列社会认知任务评估，测试了心理理论（错误信念理解）的预测模型。结果发现，陈述性（而非祈使性）的指物行为能够预测50个月大时的错误信念理解。这种预测关系在排除儿童性别和语言能力的影响后仍然显著，且与儿童气质和情绪识别无关，同时也不是由与联合注意相关的镜像自我识别或一级视觉视角采择所介导的。这些发现符合理论预测，并为社会领域的概念连续性提供了实证支持。
