Investigating false belief levels of typically developed children and children with autism

Girli A., Tekin D.

2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES-2010), İstanbul, Turkey, 4 - 08 February 2010, vol.2, pp.1944-1950, (Full Text) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume: 2
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.261
  • City: İstanbul
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.1944-1950
  • Keywords: Autism, theory of mind, false belief tasks, typically children, sally-anne task, smarties task, chocolate bar task, ice-cream truck task
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Researchers investigated false belief levels of typically developed children and children with autism with two well-known first order false-belief tasks and two second order false belief tasks which were translated into Turkish and reliability was tested. 66 typically developed children and 28 children with autism participated to the study. Results showed consistency with previous literature; typically developed children performed better than children with autism in first order and second order false belief tests. Older children performed better in both tasks but there is no significant gender difference. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.