Williams Sendromu ve Zihin Kuramı Arasındaki İlişki

Yıl 2010, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2, 67 - 75, 01.02.2010

Deniz Tekin Alev Girli

Öz

Bu makalede Williams Sendromu ile zihin kuramı ilişkisine değinilmektedir. Williams Sendromu’nun tanımı ve genel özellikleri, Williams Sendromlu bireylerin katılımcılığında yapılan çeşitli zihin kuramı araştırmaları ve son olarak öneri ve sınırlılıklardan bahsedilmiştir. Yapılan çalışma için Ebsco Host, Wiley Interscience, Sage Online, Springer Link, Taylor&Francis, Oxford arama motorlarında “zihin kuramı” “Williams sendromu” sözcükleri anahtar sözcükler içinde taranmıştır. Bu arama metoduyla yeterli sonuç bulunamadığından ikinci kez, aynı arama motorlarından, “Williams Sendromu” sözcüğü anahtar sözcüklerde, “zihin kuramı”,”zihin okuma”,”zihin körlüğü” sözcükleri yazı içinde aranmıştır. Bu aramalarda toplamda 12 yayın ile karşılaşılmıştır. Ancak yazının şekillenmesinde bu 12 yayının kaynaklarından alınan başka araştırmaların temin edilmesi ve kullanılması da katkı sağlamıştır. Çalışmanın temel amacı genel bir özet vermek olduğundan yazı tarihsel, karşılaştırmalı ya da betimsel herhangi bir önem taşımamaktadır. Bu çalışma ile hem zihin kuramının doğasını açıklamak hem de az sayıda çalışmaya konu olan Williams Sendromu’nun özellikleri hakkında bilgi vermek amaçlanmaktadır

Anahtar Kelimeler

Williams sendromu, zihin kuramı, zihin okuma, zihin körlüğü

Relationship Between Williams Syndrome and Theory of Mind

Öz

In this article, the relationship between “theory of mind” and Williams Sendrome has been mentioned. It includes definition and general aspects of Williams Sendrome, research on theory of mind in which children with Williams Sendrome participated and a conclusion consists of suggesstion and limitations. “Williams Sendrome” and “ Theory of Mind” terms had been searched in Ebsco Host, Wiley Interscience, Sage Online, Springer Link, Taylor&Francis, Oxford search engines. Search had been repeated due to limited results and for the second search “Williams Sendrome” in key words and “Theory of mind”, “mind reading” and “mind blindness” terms in text was used. In this search 12 article was found. Additionally, other sources were used in order to form this article. Since the main purpose of this article is to give a general aspect, this article has no significance in historical, comperative or discriptive perspectives. Explaining the nature of the Theory of Mind and giving information about Williams Syndrome which has very few study on is aimed with this study.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Williams Syndrome, theory of mind, mind reading, mind blindness

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