The model of mental development in human ontogenesis

The first reader is represented in Russian psychology a monograph on the formation of a psychic model. The mental model is a cognitive mechanism of understanding his own mental states (knowledge, intentions, desires, emotions, beliefs, etc) and the mental states of the other. The scientific results set out in the book refer to the development of the Mental model known in foreign psychology as "Theory of Mind".
Presented the current state of research in the direction of this approach and the original experimental works of the authors dedicated to the development of the understanding of deception, intentions, desires, emotions in children with typical development, disorders of the autistic spectrum and orphans. The ratio of the development of mental models of the physical and social world is revealed. The problems of the evolution of everyday psychology and the origins of social knowledge are discussed.
The book is addressed to the psychological community and everyone who is interested in the origins of understanding themselves and the other, the beginning of an ordinary consciousness