According to Bjorklund and Hernandez-Blasi (2012), the theory of mind is how a child develops the perception of mental activity. It is being able to predict how the mind works and organizing facts. Once a child is able to understand how the mind works and what causes their behaviors they can understand what causes the actions of others. Theory of mind requires belief-desire reasoning.
Belief -desire reasoning proposed the idea that people predict and explain what others do based on what they understand that person beliefs and desires are. We do this by watching the person 's ideas, knowledge, opinions, and suppositions and by referring to their goals, hopes, wants, and wishes (Bjorklund & Hernandez-Blasi, 2012). Watching and referring to these …show more content…
The child was asked to sit in the chair that was across from me. I showed the child the glasses case and then asked “what do you think is in this glasses case?”. The child response was written down on a piece of paper. As the child is watching, I opened the glasses case, revealing that there were pencils and pens instead of my glasses. I then placed back the pens and pencils back into the case and asked the child “what would your brother who is not in the room think is in my glasses case?” and recorded the response. Then I asked the child “why did you originally think there were glasses in my case?” and wrote down their answer on the paper. The same procedure was performed for each child in the …show more content…
However, after revealing to Child K that my glasses case had pencils and pens he answered that his brother would believe the case would contain pencils and pens and not my glasses. When Child K was asked to explain why his brother would think that there were pencils and pens in the case, he explained, “because there are pencils in the case and not your glasses so my brother is going to know that”. When he was asked to explain why did he think there were glasses before I showed him the pens and pencils he stated “you always have your glasses in your case every Sunday for class”. Just like Child K, Child V the five-year old answered that the case would include my glasses. Unlike Child K, Child V answered that his brother would believe the case to include glasses. When asked to explain why Child V stated that “you tricked me there were no glasses so we are going to trick my brother if we ask him what is in it.”. He also explained that the reason he originally thought the case contain glasses was because I always had my glasses in the
Belief -desire reasoning proposed the idea that people predict and explain what others do based on what they understand that person beliefs and desires are. We do this by watching the person 's ideas, knowledge, opinions, and suppositions and by referring to their goals, hopes, wants, and wishes (Bjorklund & Hernandez-Blasi, 2012). Watching and referring to these …show more content…
The child was asked to sit in the chair that was across from me. I showed the child the glasses case and then asked “what do you think is in this glasses case?”. The child response was written down on a piece of paper. As the child is watching, I opened the glasses case, revealing that there were pencils and pens instead of my glasses. I then placed back the pens and pencils back into the case and asked the child “what would your brother who is not in the room think is in my glasses case?” and recorded the response. Then I asked the child “why did you originally think there were glasses in my case?” and wrote down their answer on the paper. The same procedure was performed for each child in the …show more content…
However, after revealing to Child K that my glasses case had pencils and pens he answered that his brother would believe the case would contain pencils and pens and not my glasses. When Child K was asked to explain why his brother would think that there were pencils and pens in the case, he explained, “because there are pencils in the case and not your glasses so my brother is going to know that”. When he was asked to explain why did he think there were glasses before I showed him the pens and pencils he stated “you always have your glasses in your case every Sunday for class”. Just like Child K, Child V the five-year old answered that the case would include my glasses. Unlike Child K, Child V answered that his brother would believe the case to include glasses. When asked to explain why Child V stated that “you tricked me there were no glasses so we are going to trick my brother if we ask him what is in it.”. He also explained that the reason he originally thought the case contain glasses was because I always had my glasses in the