The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief Export

@article{citeulike:2304570, abstract = {This research examines whether children's difficulties with deception and false belief arise from a lack of inhibitory control rather than from a conceptual deficit. In 3 studies, 3-year-olds deceived frequently under conditions requiring relatively low inhibitory control (e. g., misleading pictorial cues or arrows) but failed to do so under conditions of high inhibitory control (deceptive pointing). Study 2 ruled out that the findings were due to social intimidation: Children were equally successful using an arrow to deceive under anonymous and public conditions. Study 3 indicated that, under well-controlled conditions, children did not reveal greater understanding of false belief in deceptive than nondeceptive conditions. The results of these studies suggest that children may have greater deceptive abilities than some earlier studies indicated, and that the source of their difficulty on deceptive pointing tasks lies in a failure of inhibitory control. More generally, it is argued that children's performance on false belief tasks is also likely to be affected by inhibition deficits.}, author = {Carlson, Stephanie M. and Moses, Louis J. and Hix, Hollie R.}, citeulike-article-id = {2304570}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1132197}, journal = {Child Development}, keywords = {\_tomem\_, child, deception, executive\_control, inhibition, theory\_of\_mind}, number = {3}, pages = {672--691}, posted-at = {2009-05-21 23:04:14}, priority = {2}, title = {The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1132197}, volume = {69}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2304570 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2304570 N2 - This research examines whether children's difficulties with deception and false belief arise from a lack of inhibitory control rather than from a conceptual deficit. In 3 studies, 3-year-olds deceived frequently under conditions requiring relatively low inhibitory control (e. g., misleading pictorial cues or arrows) but failed to do so under conditions of high inhibitory control (deceptive pointing). Study 2 ruled out that the findings were due to social intimidation: Children were equally successful using an arrow to deceive under anonymous and public conditions. Study 3 indicated that, under well-controlled conditions, children did not reveal greater understanding of false belief in deceptive than nondeceptive conditions. The results of these studies suggest that children may have greater deceptive abilities than some earlier studies indicated, and that the source of their difficulty on deceptive pointing tasks lies in a failure of inhibitory control. More generally, it is argued that children's performance on false belief tasks is also likely to be affected by inhibition deficits. IS - 3 JF - Child Development EP - 691 TI - The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief VL - 69 SP - 672 KW - _tomem_ KW - child KW - deception KW - executive_control KW - inhibition KW - theory_of_mind AU - Carlson, Stephanie AU - Moses, Louis AU - Hix, Hollie PY - 1998/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/1132197 ER -