Blind Faith and False Belief: An Examination of the Development of The

The purpose of this paper is to closely examine the effects of children with infixed central ocular impairment (CPVI) and a possible coefficient of correlation to the train in the development of theory of mind ( gobbler). Specifically, this paper will equivalence a study that investigated how visual cues affect the development of ToM to a similarly themed episode from the popular television show Xena Warrior Princess. On the appear these two groups may appear to be an odd comparison, for children with CPVI and Xena seem same they have nothing in common. However, there is one episode in particular entitled Blind Faith, in which these two grounds collide in a unique and surprising way proving and interesting parallel and surplus insight into how blindness may affect the development of the theory of mind. In the article entitled, An investigation of first-order fictive whimsey understanding of children with congenital profound visual impairment, a detailed look at the devel opment of ToM was performed. Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as the ability to impute psychogenic states to others and to interpret and predict behavior in terms of those mental states (Green 1). In order to examine ToM, the study performed a series of false spirit tests. False belief can also be explained as misinterpret which connected to false reasoning. In the case of the children in this study, the false belief would be if they can correctly identify how another individual would reply to a specific task, if that person had limited information that the children were previously do privy too. These tests are central because, as they article explains the testing false belief is the most direct way to access if a person has a fully developed theory of mind (Dennett c... ...ere is a correlation between blindness and a delay to the development ToM. Whether its Xena or children with congenital profound visual impairment its obvious that visual cues are significant when t rying to interpret the actions of others. Xena, like the children in the study, was force to rely on other senses to compensate for the lack of visual cues, which is important because without them children are at a disadvantage to understanding the greater world around them. Works CitedBlind Faith. Xena Warrior Princess. Created by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. Perf. Lucy Lawless, Renee OConnor. USA Network. April 17, 1997.Green, Sarah, Linda Pring, and John Swettenham. An Investigation of First-order False Belief Understanding of Children with inhering Profound Visual Impairment. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22.1 (2004) 1-17.