Emotional and mental discourse as a basis for social skills
“The monkey has a banana. The monkey loves bananas, but his friend does not have a banana - and he looks quite hungry… ” Theory of mind includes the ability of human beings to understand human behavior and social interactions between human beings. This ability develops in the first years of life, and includes the understanding that a particular person's mental state motivates his or her visible behavior. In children with normal development, the basis for this ability develops during the first years of life. Studies suggest a link between developing mental understanding and various social skills, such as the ability to resolve conflicts with social or joint planning during play. It is now argued that an important condition for the early development of this ability in children is rich verbal social experiences, which include exposure to diverse expressions about different mental states of the children themselves, and of people in their environment. For informativ