| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系 === 94 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relation of young children’s understanding of mind and the use of strategies of deception. Subjects of the research were three to five years old and came from a private kindergarten located in Taipei city.
By collecting the children’s explanations about their adopting of deceptive strategies and the responses to the false-belief questions, researcher tried to examine the effect of age and gender variables to their performances in different theory-of-mind tasks, including deceptive tasks and false-belief tasks.
The results showed that under controlling the standard of preschoolers’ language ability, the age variable had the significant effect. The three-year-olds performed worsely then the four- and five-, it had a positive slope curve during three to four years old. But the gender variable did not show great influence on the difference of children’s answering.
Comparing the passing number of tasks, the children performed better under the situations with deceptive contexts. It was consisting with the conclusion of Sullivan & Winner (1993), suggesting that three-year-olds had better understanding of mind in actively deceptive motions.
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