title: Effect of a metacognitive training program of mentalist skills.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Recent researches in Theory of Mind (ToM) relate its development to the development of the metacognitive skills "planning," "regulation," and acquisition of "predictive and causal reasoning." These studies reveal the importance of metacognitive training in the development of mentalist skills.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the present work, the effects of training were compared in 20 children, aged between 4 and 5 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant within-group differences in the skills of belief attribution and memory attribution were found and a tendency towards significance in the skills of behavior prediction. Significant between-group differences were found in belief attribution, prediction, and memory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mentalist skills training improve attribution, prediction and memory skills in ToM tasks.
authors: Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. mcsmanzanares@ubu.es
authors: Miguel Ángel
authors: MÁ
authors: Carbonero Martín
authors: María Consuelo
authors: MC
authors: Sáiz Manzanares
authors: José María
authors: JM
authors: Román Sánchez
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D056345:Theory of Mind