Mind reading draws on stored folk psychological knowledge

Evidence

How might the theory-theory approach explain the successful performance of older children and adults? This approach suggests that perceivers dip into their repository of folk psychological knowledge for an answer. In the case of the iPod, the homespun wisdom offers a simple prediction: People typically look for things where they last saw them. The implication, then, is that younger children fail the test because they have yet to acquire the necessary knowledge base. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 376

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and explains the theory-theory account of mind reading against a concrete false-belief task.
• XREF: connects to: Human memory stores concepts as associative networks of linked nodes — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 972