Ziatas K, Durkin K, Pratt C
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1998 Jul;39(5):755-63.
This study examined the relationship between the development of theory of mind and the development of the belief terms think, know, and guess. Children with autism and Asperger syndrome, matched to children with specific language impairment and normal development, completed false belief, belief term comprehension, and belief term expression tasks. The autistic group's performance on the false belief, belief term comprehension, and belief term expression tasks was significantly poorer than that of the Asperger, language impaired, and normal groups. Across groups an association was found between false belief and belief term performance. Results support a growing body of literature demonstrating links between the development of theory of mind and communicative competence.
本研究考察了心理理论发展与信念术语“认为”“知道”和“猜测”发展之间的关系。将自闭症和阿斯伯格综合征儿童与特定语言障碍儿童及发育正常儿童进行匹配，让他们完成错误信念、信念术语理解和信念术语表达任务。自闭症组在错误信念、信念术语理解和信念术语表达任务上的表现明显差于阿斯伯格组、语言障碍组和正常组。在所有组中，均发现错误信念与信念术语表现之间存在关联。研究结果支持了越来越多的文献所表明的心理理论发展与沟通能力之间的联系。
