Talk:Sally-Anne test

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

"Since other great apes are not known to have a human-like theory of mind, it is assumed that it evolved after our ancestors diverged from other great apes. Suddendorf has suggested that this occurred with H. erectus (dating from 1.8 mya)." --This is all pretty questionable. In fact some other primates are positively known to have some such theory, and the have an ability to decieve which depends on this, so I'm highly doubtful of the claim made here.

our common ancesters of 15 million years ago are not available to disucss this with - there should be an indication of how one comes to believe they had a theory of mind, if there is an assertion of it in teh text. 62.6.139.10 15:51, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


What constitutes "passing" the test needs to be made clearer. GiveBlood

I agree, and I am also embarassed to admit that I actually don't understand the test's sequence of events based on the description in this article. Who's in what room when the marble is moved? Are the basket and box with their doll owners at all times? Who moves the marble? What does the test subject actually witness? Tempshill 17:14, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/a/l/Talk%7ESally-Anne_test_ad92.html"