Study on theory of mind in people with Down syndrome
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Vol. Extr., núm. 09 (2015) - XIII CIG-PP, XIII Congreso Internacional G-P de Psicopedagogía. Área 9: LENGUAJE, COMUNICACIÓN Y SUS ALTERACIONES, pages 085-089
Submitted: May 26, 2015
Accepted: Aug 15, 2015
Published: Nov 23, 2015
Abstract
The theory of mind can be defined as the ability to understand and predict the behavior of other people and their intentions and beliefs. This work aims to evaluate and train the theory of mind in a group of twelve participants with Down syndrome. The results showed that most participants failed to resolve the mentalist given task; moreover, when the results of the post- training in both the control group and the experimental group, showed that the training is effective mentalists’ tasks to overcome the false belief task of first order evaluation were compared.
Keywords:
evaluación en teoría de la mente, entrenamiento en teoría de la mente, síndrome de Down, prueba de falsa creencias de primer orden, prueba de Sally y Anne assessment theory of mind, training in theory of mind, Down syndrome, test first order false beliefs, Sally and Anne test
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