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Briefly describe what is meant by a child's theory of mind? How are false-beliefs tasks useful in assessing the theory of mind?

Even young children are curious about the nature of the human mind. They have a theory of mind, which refers to awareness of one's own mental processes and the mental processes of others. One of the ways to assess a childs theory of mind is by false-belief tasks. The realization that people can have false beliefsbeliefs that are not truedevelops in a majority of children by the time they are 5 years old. This point is often described as a pivotal one in understanding the mind recognizing that beliefs are not just mapped directly into the mind from the surrounding world, but that different people can also have different, and sometimes incorrect, beliefs.


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