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The Ability to Manipulate Behavior and to Understand Manipulation of Beliefs: A Comparison of Individuals with Autism, Mental Retardation, and Normal Development.

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Yirmiya, Nurit; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996

Investigated the ability to deceive in participants with autism, mental retardation (MR), and normal development. Results indicated that participants with autism and those with MR did not differ in their ability to use a deceptive method, but participants with autism were significantly less able to understand that they manipulated the beliefs of…

Descriptors: Ability, Autism, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis

Metacognitive Development of Deaf Children: Lessons from the Appearance-Reality and False Belief Tasks

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Courtin, Cyril; Melot, Anne-Marie – Developmental Science, 2005

"Theory of mind" development is now an important research field in deaf studies. Past research with the classic false belief task has consistently reported a delay in theory of mind development in deaf children born of hearing parents, while performance of second-generation deaf children is more problematic with some contradictory results. The…

Descriptors: Deafness, Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Task Analysis