An Experimental Study On The Relationship Between Theory Of Mind And Succession Cognition Of 3.5～5.5-year-old Children

Theory of Mind is referred to that the individual infers or the cognizes other people and his own formerly the psychological condition and behavior. In the former researches, the consistent conclusion is that children's ToM develop when they are 4 years old. The domestic and foreign researchers thought the children's early social experience such as family scale, the home economics status, the family spoken language exchange, the society association and so on, as well as the children's other psychological ability such as language abilities, EF, memory, cultural background and so on should affect the developmental level of children's ToM.Wellman etc. discovered that timer control in false belief tasks has an important role. Domestic and foreign researches about the child succession cognition development, said children's succession cognition develop at 4 years, they can understand the common event the order of occurrence at that time. However,there are few researches on the relationship between ToM and succession cognition.So,this research will do some discuss in this aspectThis research designs three experiments. The experiment 1 used a revised Piaget Aleak set to test children's understanding about time seriation and a classical false belief task, unexpected content task to test children's understanding about false belief;the experiment 2 used a familiar event - to put on the clothes - to test children's understanding about time seriation and a classical false belief task, unexpected location task to test children's understanding about false belief;the experiment 3 still used the familiar event and.unexpected location task, but has let the way which child began to operate to test child's succession cognition ability, meanwhile test the children's understanding about to succession of false belief task.The experiment is proceeded individually,the number of subjects is 270,agd from 3.5 to 5.5 yaers old.To sum up,we acquire following conclusions from this research:1, Different experimental materials can affect to test the children's succession cognition ability. Experiment 2 used more simpler, more familiar experimental materials, and found children's succession are higher than those in experiment 1 .Experiment 3 lets children arrange by themselves, and the children in experiment 3 get higher scores than those in experiment 2.