Keywords
false belief
language
semantic development
social cognition
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Abstract
The results of a study realized with a sample of 116 children and children with ages between the 2 and four years of the cities of Bogota and Chía appear where it was tried to explore and to characterize the existing relations between the development of the understanding of the infantile theories of the mind and the semantic development of the language. For it was used, three versions of the task of the false belief that digitized by means of the Flash application and the adaptation to the Castilian of the battery of evaluation of early development of the language (Hresko, ET to. 1981) to evaluate the semantic abilities of the language. The findings indicate significant differences between the positive ages in terms of their level of performance for each one of the tasks, as well as, associations between social understanding and semantic development of the language for two of the three propose tasks. The findings within the framework interpret of the proposal intershareholder develops by Wellman (1994).
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