Research Article

Appearances Are Deceiving: Observing the World as It Looks and How It Really Is—Theory of Mind Performances Investigated in 3-, 4-, and 5-Year-Old Children

Table 1

Story structure coding [20].

LevelDefinitionScore

No telling0
First level: nonstorySimple description of actions without characteristics of narrative style1
Second level: sketch storyCharacteristics of narrative style, such as introduction of the setting and2
the main characters, are present, but both problem and resolution are missing
Third level: incomplete storyElementary narrative structure without a central event3
Fourth level: essential storyNonessential structural elements are missing4
Fifth level: complete storyAll eight elements are present; only the title is considered optional5