APD3203H
This course examines children's developing understanding of themselves and other people as psychological beings, that is, as people who have beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. It explores the implications of this development for children's social understanding in the preschool years and beyond, and for their understanding of thinking and learning in school. It also considers children with autism, who apparently fail to develop a theory of mind in the ordinary way, and evaluates different theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind.