... to be able to see something from another's point of view, or to appreciate the difference between someone's point of view and their own.1 If this is the case then the child must go through some stage of reasoning or something similar in order to develop a fully functioning theory of mind. Wellman et al (1990) believes children develop theory of mind through a process of belief - desire reasoning.2 They predict people's behaviour according to what they think their beliefs and desires are. This is a very social explanation of theory of mind as it not really focused on how the thought processes occur within the child but what they believe to be true based on interactions surrounding them. Flavell (1986) was concerned with children's ability to distinguish between appearance and reality. He conducted a study where children where shown objects or materials that were really one type of ...

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