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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 305-316Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005552811441
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false belief tasks; autism
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Previous studies have indicated that a pictorial representation of a prior belief can help 3-year-old children (Mitchell Br Lacohee, 1991) as well as children with autism (Charman & Lynggaard, 1998) to pass false belief tasks that used the deceptive box or Smarties paradigm. The studies reported here attempted to replicate these findings using the unexpected transfer or Sally-Anne paradigm, which requires children to predict the actions of a protagonist on the basis of a false belief. Results showed no facilitative effect on Sally-Anne task performance for the children with autism or for comparison children of either representational or nonrepresentational cues. This effect was found even in children who benefited from the intervention with the deceptive box paradigm. The findings raise issues regarding the way false belief tasks are conceptualized by experimenters and the demands different false belief paradigms make on children.
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