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In recent years, the development of children's theory has been widespread concern in the developmental psychologist. Most of the studies found that the psychological theory of pre-school children has been considerable development. 4-year-old children can achieve awareness of the false belief 6-8 year-old children can achieve awareness of the two false belief. According to the concept of life-span development, the development of the theory of mind is a lifelong task, preschool, children's psychological theory will still continue to develop. However, for primary school children followed by preschool theory of mind development characteristics are poorly understood, but also the need for further research. In addition, the relationship between psychological theory and aggressive behavior by the researchers. Previous findings are not consistent, some studies found that attack children's theory of mind is less than non-aggressive children, and some studies have found that children's psychological theoretical level of the attack and non-attack children there was no significant difference. The relationship between theory of mind and aggression is more complex, still needs further research. In this study, a more detailed research on theory of mind development, as well as the relationship between psychological theory and aggressive behavior research. And then on the basis of the analysis of previous research, the purpose of this study, carried out two studies were discussed. In Study 1, the slip of the tongue tasks and white lies tasks conducted a survey of 90 primary school children (30 second grade, 30 fourth grade, sixth grade, 30) theory of mind development characteristics. In Study 2, the use of the CBCL scale filter out attack 26 children, randomly selected 26 non-aggressive children, psychological theory test, and then to attack children and non-aggressive children's psychological theoretical results were compared. Through the analysis of the results of the study, the following conclusions: 1. Overall, with increasing age, primary school children have developed remarkably in the theory of mind. However, the development of children's understanding of the slip of the tongue understanding and dialogue lie showing different characteristics. 2. Primary school children's theory of mind there is a significant gender difference, the girl's psychological theory results significantly better than boys. The pace of development of boys and girls on the theory of mind. 3. Overall, attacks children and non-aggressive children there is a significant difference in the theory of mind tasks, attack children's psychological theory results significantly worse than non-aggressive children. 4. Indirect attack children's mental and verbal attacks there was no significant difference between theory and non-aggressive children, children's psychological theory of physical aggression scores were significantly lower than non-aggressive children. 5. The relationship of theory of mind and aggression is very complex, in different ages, different theory of mind tasks as well as different types of attacks, the relationship between the two may be showing different characteristics.
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