마음의 이론과 우정에 관한 고찰

A Study on Theory of Mind and Friendship

본 연구에서는 마음의 이론에 관한 여러 가지 이론들을 살펴봄으로써 유아의 사고 발달과 사회인지 발달을 이해하고자 한다. 또 유아가 타인의 감정과 사고를 이해하는데 또래의 역할은 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 생각되며, 따라서 유아의 마음의 이론에 관한 습득에 영향을 미치는 또래와의 상호작용과 우정의 관계를 알아봄으로써 유아의 우정 관계가 마음의 이론 발달을 도울 수 있을 지를 논의해 보고자 한다.

We try to examine what others including our selves want, why they get to do such action, and which action they will do. He who doesn't use the theory of mind in this course will get to do the action which seems to be self-centered to the eyes of others. It can be said that it is important to understand what children know about mind and how they develop gradually for examining the development course of society cognition of children. Because understanding that feeling that people express and feeling that they feel really may be different, controlling the level of understanding in accordance with the level of knowledge of the other party, and classifying appearance and reality, & mental thing and physical thing etc. are the ability that to have to have for human social interaction. What forms the theory of mind may be the base to enable children to perform the action to be familiar with society or social cognitive action more exactly than now(Baron-Cohen, 1994). A study on the theory of mind has examined about the mind of children by using false belief task. It can be said that one has wrong belief when representation that oneself thinks is different from reality. Tool for examining whether one understands such belief to be different from reality may be referred to as false belief task. It can be said that inner inference system is used in the course to show mental representation as action. Inference system to be used at this time has difference fro fragmentary knowledge, and it can be considered that the use of this inference system reflects that children have the understanding about mind at the level of theory which is not knowledge. Findings on false belief is showing that 4~5 year old children understand the existence about the mental phenomenon to be different fro outside and that they are recognizing that action has relation with mental representation which is not objective stimulation reality.