The Development of Children's Beliefs about the Mental World.

Abstract

Children's understanding of certain mental functioning, such as perceptual ex perience, memory, intentions, and emotions, suggests a general developmental hypothesis: Young children view the mind as passive in relation to the external world and regard external events as determining subjective experience, whereas older children know many ways that psychological activities influence experi ence. This knowledge may enhance their perspective-taking abilities. The pro posed passive-to-active developmental trend is used to interpret research find ings on children's understanding of a variety of mental phenomena. Children's ability to use information from monitoring their own internal states and informa tion conveyed by others about the mental world is also related to the hypothe sized developmental trend.

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