Peterson: false drawings vs. false beliefs children's difficulty with the photo task is due to referential confusion about which scene the question refers to (the picture or reality) while the hurdle in the false belief task is to understand that the believer misrepresents reality Zaitchik’s (1990) original false photo task indicated (with photos of people lying on the mat) most 3-year olds answered wrongly that person 2 (the one currently lying on the mat) will be in the photo most 4-year olds correctly answered that person 1 will appear in the photograph also found that this change concurs with a change in children's understanding of false belief Emergence of children's understanding of representations (ability to metarepresent) (e.g., Wellman, Gopnik, Flavell, Perner) or gradually improving performance (e.g., due to growing information processing capacities) of deeper competencies that developed earlier at the end of infancy (e.g., Leslie)

Peterson Differential performance on drawings and beliefs by normals vs. autistic + deaf Can predict the outcome of a painting that represents an old scene than the search behavior of a protagonist with an old belief Better understanding of drawing-based fb might reflect the effect of early social and conversational experience that normally developing children have... Discuss

Steele at al. ToM skills develop in autistic children, when training starts early Appendix provides the types of tasks used to measure ToM Early Basic Advances

Wednesday Read Bjorklund, Chapter 11: Language Development