Investigating false belief levels of typically developed children and children with autism

Abstract Researchers investigated false belief levels of typically developed children and children with autism with two well-known first order false-belief tasks and two second order false belief tasks which were translated into Turkish and reliability was tested. 66 typically developed children and 28 children with autism participated to the study. Results showed consistency with previous literature; typically developed children performed better than children with autism in first order and second order false belief tests. Older children performed better in both tasks but there is no significant gender difference.

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