What Did I Say? Versus What Did I Think? Attributing False Beliefs to Self amongst Children with and without Autism

Autor/inn/en	Williams, David M.; Happe, Francesca
Titel	What Did I Say? Versus What Did I Think? Attributing False Beliefs to Self amongst Children with and without Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39 (2009) 6, S.865-873 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-009-0695-6
Schlagwörter	Autism; Developmental Disabilities; Comparative Analysis; Evaluation Methods; Measures (Individuals); Cognitive Processes; Beliefs; Test Items + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Entwicklungsstörung; Messdaten; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Belief; Glaube; Test content; Testaufgabe
Abstract	The task used most widely to assess recognition of false belief in self "and" others is the "Smarties" unexpected contents task. Amongst individuals with and without autism, the Self and Other-person test questions of this task are of an equivalent level of difficulty. However, a potential confound with this task may allow the Self test question to be passed without false belief competence. Three groups of participants (with autism, developmental disability and typical development) undertook a new unexpected contents task which did not suffer from this confound. The main finding was that participants with autism performed significantly less well on the Self test question than the Other-person test question on this new task. Individuals with autism may have greater difficulty representing their own beliefs than the beliefs of other people. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10