NEPSY-II Theory of Mind

This subtest has verbal and nonverbal components and is designed to measure participants' understanding of intention, deception, belief, emotion, and pretending. The perception of others' thoughts, ideas, and feelings is also assessed. In the verbal portion of the task, the participant listens to scenarios or is shown images. The examiner asks a question about the point of view from a character in the presented information. In the nonverbal portion of the task (i.e., contextual task), the participant is presented with pictures of a social context and required to select the answer from four options that represents the correct affect of one of the persons pictured. NEPSY-II Theory of Mind test-retest reliability is high (*r =* 0.84). Because standard scores are only available up to 6:11, percentile ranks were used in addition to raw scores for measure description. Percentile ranks are unavailable for the total score for children 6–6:11 and therefore only verbal score percentile rank is reported for the 6-year-old participants. Verbal and total scores percentile rank are both reported for children 7–17 years old.
