PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Reasoning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Psyc 100 - lecture 3 - development psychology ii cognitive development: self, theory of mind, theories of cog. Helps us explain mental state of others. Theory of mind: the ability to reason about what other people might know or believe and how those beliefs and knowledge will relate to their action. Mental state of others are not directly observable so we make predictions based on experience. Less dominant than chimps will approach food: when hidden while dominant not looking, when moved while dominant not looking, when new dominant chimp brought in. Exploiting the birds tendency to remember and pilfer food caches they have seen others make. Ravens employ different behavioural tactics according to the information their competitors had during caching. Recognising the others perception (and/or knowledge state) Ability to memorize the others line of sight. Ravens not only remember whom they have seen at caching but also take into account whether the others view was blocked.