Attribution of Intentionality and Theory of Mind in Pre-school and Scho

The capacity of discretion intentions of others is very important for social study of children (Feinfield, Lee, Flavell, Green, & Flavell, 1999). By means of understanding intentions children can make sense of that people and animates are unlike from objects (Feinfield, et al., 1999). According to Shantz (1983), this ability is the requisite to understand morality and responsibility. To understand plans and intend we also need to have the ability of understanding intentions (Feinfield, et al., 1999). In addition, Feinfield and colleagues utter that acquiring the ability of understanding intentions of others is also important for the cognitive development of the children such as speculation of mind (ToM) that is the understanding that others have beliefs, intentions and desires divergent from ones own (Kelly, 2011 p. 5). For these stated reasons many researchers have conducted several(a) studies about the ability of understanding intentions of others. Several studies were car ried out to determine when children incur to develop the ability of understanding intentions, which factors have an impact on this ability, how these factors deviate the intention attribution and what the role of intention attribution plays for the associations between cognitive capacities and moral reasoning.One of the factors that are related to development of understanding intentions of others is theory of mind competence of the children (Kelly, 2011). Therefore, there are various researches that examined the development of understanding of intentions, its relations with ToM, direction of the relation and the role of the intention attribution as a sphere between ToM and moral judgment. In the accede paper, the review of 9 studies that inves... ...ct Effect Theory of Mind and Moral Judgment. mental Science, 17(5), 421-427.Loureiro, Carolina Piazzarollo, & Souza, Debora de Hollanda. (2013). The Relationship between Theory of Mind and Moral Development in Preschool Children. P aidia (Ribeiro Preto), 23(54), 93-101.Phillips, W., BaronCohen, S., & Rutter, M. (1998). Understanding intention in median(prenominal) development and in autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16(3), 337-348.Shantz, (1983). Social cognition. In J. H. Flavell & E. M. Markman (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 3 Cognitive Development, 4th edition. (pp. 495555). New York Wiley.Smetana, J. G., Jambon, M., Conry-Murray, C., & Sturge-Apple, M. L. (2012). reciprocal cross associations between young childrens developing moral judgments and theory of mind. Developmental psychology, 48(4), 1144.