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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 1:3 1996
© 1996 Oxford University Press

Theory of Mind in Deaf Adults and the Organization of Verbs of Knowing

M. Diane Clark1,, Paula J. Schwanenflugel2, Victoria S. Everhart3 and Maria Bartini4

1Shippensburg University
2University of Georgia
3National Technical Institute of the Deaf
4University of Georgia

Naive theories of mind provide an organizing scheme for concept formation and categorization. Additionally, they highlight what is important within a domain. This study investigated how deaf adults with hearing parents organize 17 cognitive verbs of knowing as a way of describing their naive theory of mind. Deaf adults rated on a 1 to 7 scale the similarity of pairs of cognitive verbs in terms of whether "the words are alike or different based on how you would use your mind when you do that mental activity." We directly compared the similarity of cognitive verbs in these deaf adults with data collected in earlier research describing the organization of cognitive verbs in hearing adults. We conducted multidimensional scaling, additive similarity tree, and Pathfinder analyses to assess global, categorical, and local relations in the domain. Deaf adults' theory of mind revealed a distinction among mental verbs in terms of information-processing components and constructive certainty components. In all analyses, the deaf group showed a very similar organization to that of hearing adults examined in previous research. We conclude that, although deaf adults might be expected to view cognitive processes differently than hearing adults, they nonetheless exhibit a theory of mind that is highly similar to that of hearing adults.

Correspondence should be sent to Diane Clark, Department of Psychology, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257.


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