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flip · 03-02-2008, 08:56 AM

Thanks for the post, a gem, Shel!

Theory of mind questions hit me when I read this. According to findings, oral deaf children with CI performs as bad as those with HA and late signing skills on those questions. TOM questions are good way to test and reveal lack of language skills and cognitive functions.

A typical theory of mind question pasted from "http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1136678

"A classic false belief paradigm is Wimmer and Perner's "Maxi task" (1983). The child is presented with a doll named "Maxi" and the experimenter tells the child that Maxi places his chocolate in "the cupboard". Maxi then goes away and the child is presented with a doll to represent Maxi's mother. The experimenter describes how Maxi's mother takes the chocolate and puts it somewhere else, such as a box. The experimenter then describes how Maxi returns and his mother goes away again. The child is then asked two questions. There is the "memory question", which asks whether the child remembers where Maxi put the chocolate. Almost all children are able to answer this correctly. It does not rely on any sort of ideas of what others might be thinking. However, the false belief question does. The experimenter asks the child; "Where will Maxi look for his chocolate?" Only about 40% of 4-5 years olds answered the false belief question correctly. The rest said that Maxi would look in the chocolate's new location."

03-02-2008, 08:56 AM	#8 (permalink)
flip Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 872	Thanks for the post, a gem, Shel! Theory of mind questions hit me when I read this. According to findings, oral deaf children with CI performs as bad as those with HA and late signing skills on those questions. TOM questions are good way to test and reveal lack of language skills and cognitive functions. A typical theory of mind question pasted from "http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1136678 "A classic false belief paradigm is Wimmer and Perner's "Maxi task" (1983). The child is presented with a doll named "Maxi" and the experimenter tells the child that Maxi places his chocolate in "the cupboard". Maxi then goes away and the child is presented with a doll to represent Maxi's mother. The experimenter describes how Maxi's mother takes the chocolate and puts it somewhere else, such as a box. The experimenter then describes how Maxi returns and his mother goes away again. The child is then asked two questions. There is the "memory question", which asks whether the child remembers where Maxi put the chocolate. Almost all children are able to answer this correctly. It does not rely on any sort of ideas of what others might be thinking. However, the false belief question does. The experimenter asks the child; "Where will Maxi look for his chocolate?" Only about 40% of 4-5 years olds answered the false belief question correctly. The rest said that Maxi would look in the chocolate's new location."