ISSN : 1229-0718
This study examines the developmental change of children's ability to use trait informations for making inferences about behaviors and mental states. A total of 181 kindergarteners, second-graders, and fourth-graders participated in this study. Children were presented two behavioral informations of a story character from which a personality trait could be inferred. Their tasks were to predict and infer the story character's behavior and mental states such as belief, desire, intention, and emotional response. The results indicate that preschoolers have ability to predict behaviors by using the trait informations. However, they could not use the trait informations as a basis for making mental inference. These results suggest that children change from the viewing traits as behavioral regularities to understanding them as causal mediators to produce mental states such as desire, belief, and feeling.
구재선 ; 김혜리 ; 김경미 ; 양혜영 ; 고순남 ; 정명숙, (2006) 아동의 성격 특질에 대한 이해 발달:특질 추론과 상황적,시간적 안정성을 중심으로, 한국심리학회지:발달
김경미 ; 김혜리 ; 정명숙 ; 양혜영 ; 구재선, (2008) 유치원 아동의 마음이론과 사회적 능력의 관계, 한국심리학회지:발달
양혜영 ; 김혜리 ; 김경미 ; 구재선 ; 정명숙 ; 박은혜, (2008) 초등학생의 마음이론과 사회적 능력의 관계, 한국심리학회지:발달
윤정은 ; 송현주, (2007) 아동의 행위자 성향 추론 능력의 발달, 한국심리학회지:일반
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