The Development of Theory of Mind and Its Relations with Inhibitory Control

The present study examined the developmental level of Theory of Mind (Tom for short) between 3 and 4year olds and whether there is any relationship between the performance of falsebelief task and inhibitory control task. The results showed that there is a significant change between 3 and 4year olds, and the children's who gave correct answer in falsebelief task did better in inhibitory conflict task than those who had wrong responses in falsebelief task. Moreover, there were significant correlations between the score in task of falsebelief and in the task of inhibitory conflict except for falsebelief of others.