Perner J
Institut für Psychologie, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Cognition. 1995 Dec;57(3):241-69. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(95)00673-1.
I contrast Fodor's theory of the child's Very Simple Theory of Mind (VSTM), which differs from adult folk psychology only in that it recognizes fewer intentional objects, with my view that children's concepts cross-cut the adult conceptual system. More specifically, young children do not distinguish between the state of affairs a belief is about and how this state of affairs is though of, which puts a severe limit on their understanding of belief as distinct from pretence. The two different positions are evaluated against empirical data on children's developing "theory of mind".
我将福多关于儿童的“非常简单的心智理论”（VSTM）与我的观点进行对比，福多的理论与成人的常识心理学的不同之处仅在于它识别的意向对象较少，而我的观点是儿童的概念与成人概念系统相互交叉。更具体地说，幼儿不会区分信念所涉及的事态与对该事态的思考方式，这严重限制了他们将信念与假装区分开来的理解。我们根据关于儿童发展中的“心智理论 ”的实证数据对这两种不同的立场进行评估。
