Two-and-a-half-year-olds succeed at a traditional false-belief task with reduced processing demands

• Main Authors: Setoh, Peipei, Scott, Rose M., Baillargeon, Renée
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Psychological reasoning; Theory of mind
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84102; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41644
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When tested with traditional false-belief tasks, which require answering a standard question about the likely behavior of an agent with a false belief, children perform below chance until age 4 y or later. When tested without such questions, however, children give evidence of false-belief understand...