Children´s theories of mind and semantic development among children from Bogota and Buenos Aires

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children theory of mind, cross - cultural, false belief, language, semantic development

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Milton Eduardo Bermúdez-Jaimes
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-7073
Viviana Sastre Gómez
Universidad de Buenos Aires
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1748-6436

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The results of a study realized with a sample of 120 male and female children between 3 and 4 years old from the cities of Bogota- Colombia and Buenos Aires- Argentina are shown; the development of Children’s Theory
of mind and semantic development of language is compared in this study to identify cultural differences. For this study, three digitized versions of the task of the false belief were used by means of the Flash application, as well as the language subtest of the Scale of Wechsler WPPSI III, to evaluate the semantic abilities of the language. The findings indicate significant differences between the children’s ages in terms of their level of performance for each one of the tasks; positive associations between social understanding and semantic development of the language for two of the three proposed tasks were also found. In the same way, differences with respect to the nationality were evident.

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Vol. 12 No. 27 (2015): Uaricha Número Especial: La infancia y la adolescencia

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Bermúdez-Jaimes, M. E. ., & Sastre Gómez, V. (2015). Children´s theories of mind and semantic development among children from Bogota and Buenos Aires. Uaricha, 12(27), 13-31. http://www.revistauaricha.umich.mx/ojs_uaricha/index.php/urp/article/view/36

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