Question

Five-year-olds who were surprised to discover that a band-aid box contained pencils were able to anticipate their friend's false belief about the contents of the box. this best illustrates that the children had developed a

Answer 1

The answer is the theory of mind. This is the capacity to property mental states—convictions, plans, wants, feelings, learning, and so forth.— to oneself, and to others, and to comprehend that others have convictions, wants, expectations, and points of view that are not quite the same as one's own.