Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers.
Theory of mind (ToM) development in 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers was examined with reference to desires, beliefs and emotions. These categories relate to universal notion that ToM develops in this order (Vinden, 2001). The specialty of this study is its bilingual participants, as previ...
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| author | Chua, Hui Ping. |
| author2 | Qu Li |
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| description | Theory of mind (ToM) development in 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers was examined with reference to desires, beliefs and emotions. These categories relate to universal notion that ToM develops in this order (Vinden, 2001). The specialty of this study is its bilingual participants, as previous works mainly focused on monolingual children. Naturalistic observations of preschoolers‟ conversations were recorded using mainly paper-and-pen method. Utterances containing the three categories, and attribution to self and others were coded. One-way ANOVAs was used to tabulate the results. Two hypotheses supported the notion that understanding beliefs is slower than desires but faster than emotions. The third hypothesis that ToM is not only about understanding one self, but also the others, was also supported at p<.05. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/385352019-12-10T12:38:13Z Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. Chua, Hui Ping. Qu Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology Theory of mind (ToM) development in 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers was examined with reference to desires, beliefs and emotions. These categories relate to universal notion that ToM develops in this order (Vinden, 2001). The specialty of this study is its bilingual participants, as previous works mainly focused on monolingual children. Naturalistic observations of preschoolers‟ conversations were recorded using mainly paper-and-pen method. Utterances containing the three categories, and attribution to self and others were coded. One-way ANOVAs was used to tabulate the results. Two hypotheses supported the notion that understanding beliefs is slower than desires but faster than emotions. The third hypothesis that ToM is not only about understanding one self, but also the others, was also supported at p<.05. Bachelor of Arts 2010-05-11T03:03:13Z 2010-05-11T03:03:13Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38535 en Nanyang Technological University 30 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. |
| title_full | Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. |
| title_fullStr | Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. |
| title_short | Theory of mind in preschool conversation : an investigation of 3- and 5-year-old Singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers. |
| title_sort | theory of mind in preschool conversation an investigation of 3 and 5 year old singaporean preschoolers via daily conversation with peers |
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