The Development of False-Beliefs in Korean Young Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present study tried to find out when Korean children being to grasp this aspect of how a false belief can initially lead to an action with an undesired outcome. The aim of experiment was to examine when Korean children being to grasp this aspect of how a false belief can initially lead to an action with an undesired outcome. The population sample which provided the data for this study was composed of forty-five kindergarten children in Seoul, Sadang Dong. In Experiment, The present study used six stories, a chocolate box, a candy box, a cookie box, a Lego box, a pencil case and a crayon case. The statistical analyses related to the problems were computed using SPSS 8.0 for windows. The scores were analyzed in a 3(age) ×1(condition) factorial ANOVA and Multiple Comparisons(Tukey), 3(age) 2(condition) factorial ANOVA and Multiple Comparison(Tukey). The results of these experiments have shown that children start to understand that beliefs may be held with differing degrees of certainty at about four-years of age, and that this understanding is tied to their understanding of the nature of beliefs and the distinction between appearance and reality. The present study also showed that Korean young children develop the ability to predict action based on a person‘s false belief about the age of five. Children come to understand false belief in themselves and in other people at about the age of four and five. At the same age they start to tell deliberate lies and are able to deceive other people by creating false beliefs in the other.