The Child as Psychologist

NOTES

Summary of information from Kevin Riggs' lectures and the readings below

ESSAYS

  1. the "theory of mind" or metarepresentation hypothesis as to how we develop an internally represented theory or knowledge structure - a folk psychology

  2. the modular hypothesis as to the development of children’s representations of the propositional attitudes of agents

  3. the simulation theory or disengagement hypothesis as to how we infer the mental states of other people

  4. counterfactual conditional reasoning in inferring the mental states of other people

  5. executive function as a common functional component of false belief tasks

READING LINKS

  1. Brief summary of all the theories, University of Durham Developmental Psychology lecture notes

  2. Annual Review of Psychology, Annual, 1999, Cognitive Development: Children's Knowledge About the Mind. John H. Flavell

  3. Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory? Mind & Language, v. 7, no. 1, 1992, 35-71. Stephen Stich

  4. An Etiology of Autism- An examination of Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome in the light of the Modularity of Mind Thesis, Steve McKinlay, Victoria University

  5. Representational development and theory-of-mind computations, Commentary on Gopnik, A. (1992). How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. David C. Plaut & Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  6. Autism and the "Theory of Mind" Debate, Robert M. Gordon and John A. Barker from seminar on "Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds".

  7. About + Belief + Counterfactual by Josef Perner, Draft chapter to appear in P. Mitchell and K. J. Riggs (Eds.) Children's reasoning and the mind. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.

  8. Theory of mind and executive function: is there a developmental relationship? by Josef Perner and Birgit Lang, (2000). In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, & D. Cohen (Eds.). Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism and developmental cognitive neuroscience 2nd edition (ch. 4,pp-pp). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  9. Theory of Mind, Perner, J. (1999). Theory of mind. In M. Bennett (Ed.). Developmental psychology: Achievements & prospects. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.

  10. Representational Development, Tom Simpson PhD student at the University of Sheffield. 

  11. fMRI studies How the Brain Reads the Mind, F. Happe and U. Frith, (1999) Neuroscience News, Volume 2 Number 1

  12. Theory Theory To The Max -A Critical Notice of: Words, Thoughts and Theories by Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff. Bradford Books: MIT Press. 1997. Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols (1998) Mind & Language 13, 421-449.

  13. Misrepresentation and Referential Confusion: Children's Difficulty with False Beliefs and Outdated Photographs, Perner, J., Leekam, S.R., Myers, D., Davis, S. and Odgers, N. Unpublished manuscript

  14. Changing focus on the representational mind: Deaf, autistic and normal childrens concepts of false photos, false drawings, and false beliefs, Candida C. Peterson and Michael Siegal

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