摘要：In this study on the development of children's understanding of varieties of expertise,forty-seven 3, 4- and 5-year old children were asked to differentiate expertise in the minds of aduls,using twenty-four questions consisting of 3 levels of inferences. False belief tasks were also provided to discover crrelations with knowledge of varous pockets of expertise.Results revealed that 4- and 5-year olds made more correct atributions than 3-year olds Children also inferred atributions properly on familiar experts, understanding of stereolypical roles,normal functioning,and underlying principles,in that order. Children's concepts of varicties of expertise were crrelated with their understanding of false beliefs..
关键词：social cognition; conceptual development; theory of mind; folk biology
