In this video, we continue our discussion of developmental psychology (that is, child psychology) by learning about theory of mind. We also discuss false belief tasks, the way we test theory of mind abilities in children, and a famous false belief task in particular known as the Sally-Anne Test.

Theory of Mind: The ability to reason about what other people know or believe; the understanding that others have different thoughts or preferences.

Sally-Anne Test: A traditional false belief task designed to test whether children understand that other people can have different—and even inaccurate—knowledge states than themselves.