This document provides an overview of theory of mind, including its history, development in children, and relationship to autism. It discusses key findings such as: - Premack and Woodruff's experiment showing chimpanzees can attribute mental states to humans - Wimmer and Perner's false belief task showing children develop theory of mind around age 4 - Baron-Cohen's theory that autism involves impairments in the shared attention mechanism module of theory of mind - Debate around nativist vs. cognitive vs. social interactionist perspectives on the development of theory of mind.