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other mental states. These preschoolers were able to use emotional cues to judge other’s desires,
but their performance was influenced by object’s characteristics (nice or poor) and the outcome
(got or not).
2063.24 The relation between children’s ability of alternative naming and understanding false
belief, Naiyi Wang, Hong Li, Southwest China Normal University, China
The article studied the relation between ToM and the ability of alternative naming in Chinese 3 to
5-year olds using the traditional FB task and the alternative naming tasks devised by J.Perner and
M. Sprung etc. The results showed that the ability of understanding false belief was significantly
correlated with the ability of using alternative names. With two control tasks added, the results
indicated that the assume of Perspectival Understanding of Mind could not completely explain the
common difficulty of young children on the two kinds of tasks. There may be other causes, such
as visual clues and inhibition.
2063.25 Carrying out psychotherapeutic works with children from families transferred stress,
Mariam Shirkhanyan, University "Urartu", Yerevan, Armenia
In a stressful situation of short duration, unexpectedness, suddenness is taken into account. It is
known that in Armenia in the course of last years a turn of these extreme situations has happened.
(The genocide in Azerbaijan, emigration to Armenia, the earthquake of nineteen eighty eight.) We
have carried out psycho diagnostic works with such children who did not manage to feel these
extreme situations in the families where the elder generation bore such situations. The researches
showed that the child feels the consequences of the stress, passed from the parents, which
transforms in the psychology of the child.
2063.26 Person versus process praise and conceptions of ability: Implications for coping with
failure, Bing Qian, Wang Meifang, Liu Anqing, Yang Yunyun, Shandong Normal University,
China
Present study explored person versus process praise and conceptions of ability and their
implications for coping with failure in 192 four-, eight-, twelve-year-old Chinese children. As
predicted, children displayed significantly more helpless responses to failure after person praise
than after process praise and after no feedback. Children’s conceptions of ability included 3
relatively distinct dimensions: conceptions of ability as uncontrollable, conceptions of ability as
constant and conceptions of ability as capacity. The 3 dimensions had different relations to coping
with failure. Moreover, conceptions of ability as constant and as capacity appeared to interact with
praise to influence children’s coping.
2063.27 Relations among children’s implicit personality theories, interpersonal affect and social
judgments, Su Xia, Wang Meifang, Zhan Xin, Yang Yunyun, Shandong Normal University,
China
Present study examined the relations among children’s implicit personality theories, interpersonal
affect (like/dislike) and social judgments with 169 participants aged 5-10 in China. The results
indicated: (1) Children’s social judgments became more and more positive with age. (2) Children
judged their liked peers more positively than disliked peers, particularly when their peers
displayed inconsistent (e.g. honest and dishonest) behaviors. (3) Incremental theorists’ social
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