A constituição da teoria da mente: estudo longitudinal sobre uso de termos mentais em situação lúdica e desempenho em tarefas de crença e crença falsa

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Ano de defesa: 2008
Autor(a) principal: Valério, Anegreice lattes
Orientador(a): Maluf, Maria Regina
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Tese
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: Psicologia da Educação
Departamento: Psicologia
País: BR
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16375
Resumo: Understanding mental states such as desires, emotions and beliefs is important for the success to our every Day relationships. The acquisition and development of this ability are aspects that have been studied under the name of theory of mind. To study the first manifestations of this comprehension can enable to understand this development. The central objective of this research is to examine the constitution of children s theory of mind. Another objective, a practical one, is to offer assistance for the promotion of activities that favor this development. 58 preschool children of a medium-high socioeconomic level, 29 boys and 29 girls between 1;11 to 3;7 year-olds, were followed for 18 months in 4 gatherings with intervals of 6 months through two procedures: a) observation in playful situation kids were videotaped playing in groups of 4; b) they were given tasks, kids answered individually to tasks of belief and false belief. Verbalizations were typed and submitted to software SPAD-T for treatment and categorization according to the type of attribution of mental states. The performance in the tasks was submitted to the Factorial Analysis. The results showed that the attributions more precocious of mental states to the other one happened at 2 years 5 months (emotion), 2 years and 7 months (desire) and 3 years and 2 months (belief). Differences were found in relation to the period of acquisition in terms related to belief. The most used terms were the verbs gostar (to like), querer (to want) and saber (to know). Other words frequently used were medo (fear), feliz (happy) and triste (sad) at the end of the second year of life and pensar (to think), conhecer (to know), mentir (to lie) and enganar (to cheat) during the third year of life. The factorial analysis revealed that there was age influence in this development and found different profiles of development. The results of both groups of data (verbal manifestations and task performance) were used in the intra-individual analysis of 10 participants and, in all cases, were complemented in the explanation of the behavior of each child