Figure 11.12: Performance of individuals with autism and typically developing 4-year-olds on false-belief and false-picture tests As shown here, individuals with autism were much more likely to understand that a picture could misrepresent current reality than to understand that a person’s belief could misrepresent current reality. In contrast, typically developing 4-year-olds performed better on the false-belief tests than on the false-picture tests.
(Based on data from Leslie & Thaiss, 1992.)