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dc.contributor.authorMahy, Caitlin
dc.contributor.authorBernstein, Daniel M.
dc.contributor.authorGerrard, Lindsey D.
dc.contributor.authorAtance, Christina M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-03T14:52:43Z
dc.date.available2021-11-03T14:52:43Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJournal of experimental child psychology, 2017-08, Vol.160, p.50-66en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-0965
dc.identifier.issn1096-0457
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/15374
dc.description.abstractA continuous measure of false belief showed development in 3–7 year old children. False belief bias was related to Change of Location task performance. False belief bias was unrelated to measures of inhibition. The continuous measure of false belief shows convergent and discriminant validity. In two studies, we examined young children’s performance on the paper-and-pencil version of the Sandbox task, a continuous measure of false belief, and its relations with other false belief and inhibition tasks. In Study 1, 96 children aged 3 to 7years completed three false belief tasks (Sandbox, Unexpected Contents, and Appearance/Reality) and two inhibition tasks (Head–Shoulders–Knees–Toes and Grass/Snow). Results revealed that false belief bias—a measure of egocentrism—on the Sandbox task correlated with age but not with the Unexpected Contents or Appearance/Reality task or with measures of inhibition after controlling for age. In Study 2, 90 3- to 7-year-olds completed five false belief tasks (Sandbox, Unexpected Contents, Appearance/Reality, Change of Location, and a second-order false belief task), two inhibition tasks (Simon Says and Grass/Snow), and a receptive vocabulary task (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test). Results showed that false belief bias on the Sandbox task correlated negatively with age and with the Change of Location task but not with the other false belief or inhibition tasks after controlling for age and receptive vocabulary. The Sandbox task shows promise as an age-sensitive measure of false belief performance during early childhood and shows convergent and discriminant validity.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.subjectChilden_US
dc.subjectChild developmenten_US
dc.subjectChild, Preschoolen_US
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectContinuous measurementen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.subjectEarly childhooden_US
dc.subjectFalse beliefen_US
dc.subjectFemaleen_US
dc.subjectHumansen_US
dc.subjectInhibitionen_US
dc.subjectInhibition (Psychology)en_US
dc.subjectMaleen_US
dc.subjectPsychological testsen_US
dc.subjectSet (Psychology)en_US
dc.subjectTheory of Minden_US
dc.subjectValidityen_US
dc.subjectVocabularyen_US
dc.titleTesting the validity of a continuous false belief task in 3- to 7-year-old childrenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jecp.2017.03.010
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-03T14:52:44Z


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