Blind Faith and False Belief: An Examination of the Development of The

The purpose of this paper is to almost examine the effects of children with congenital profound visual loss (CPVI) and a possible correlation to the grasp in the development of supposition of estimation (ToM). Specifically, this paper will compare a study that investigated how visual cues extend to the development of ToM to a similarly themed episode from the popular television show Xena Warrior Princess. On the surface these two groups may appear to be an odd comparison, for children with CPVI and Xena seem like they have nothing in common. However, at that place is one episode in particular entitled Blind Faith, in which these two worlds collide in a unique and surprising expressive style proving and interesting parallel and additional insight into how blindness may move the development of the theory of mind. In the article entitled, An investigation of first-order false tactual sensation understanding of children with congenital profound visual impairment, a detailed go out at the development of ToM was performed. Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as the ability to impute mental states to others and to take in and predict behavior in terms of those mental states (Green 1). In order to examine ToM, the study performed a series of false belief tests. infatuated belief can also be explained as misunderstanding which connected to false reasoning. In the theatrical role of the children in this study, the false belief would be if they can correctly observe how another person would respond to a specific task, if that person had throttle information that the children were previously made privy too. These tests are important because, as they article explains the testing false belief is the most direct route to access if a person has a fully developed theory of mind (Dennett c... ...ere is a correlation between blindness and a delay to the development ToM. Whether its Xena or children with congenital profound visual impairment its obvious tha t visual cues are significant when trying to interpret the actions of others. Xena, like the children in the study, was forced to rely on other senses to pay back for the lack of visual cues, which is important because without them children are at a harm to understanding the greater world around them. Works CitedBlind Faith. Xena Warrior Princess. Created by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. Perf. Lucy Lawless, Renee OConnor. USA Network. April 17, 1997.Green, Sarah, Linda Pring, and John Swettenham. An Investigation of First-order False Belief Understanding of Children with Congenital Profound Visual Impairment. British diary of Developmental Psychology, 22.1 (2004) 1-17.