psychological lexicon.
From the study they were able to find that in middle childhood there
continues to be correlation between use of psychological lexicon and
performance on tests of epistemic and emotional theory of mind.
The comprehension of metacognitive language plays
a key part in explaining children's performance on theory of mind tasks.
Other findings they found were that in period when learning takes place the
relationship between language and theory of the mind changes whereas in
earlier development children's theory of mind was predicted by their verbal
ability. They also revealed that school aged children expended their use of
mental state language and acquire the meaning of the language. This study
helps examines how children's use and understanding of mental state
language contributes to theory of mind in middle childhood. This research
study contributes to theory of mind as it explores elements that
contribute. For example the study shown that children in primary school are
gaining literacy skills which lets them have a greater understanding of
mentalistic terms which help with their academic learning. It also shows
that once children are in the middle childhood and have learnt more through
school they begin to use simpler mental state language in their everyday
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