PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Joint Attention, Informa, Face Perception

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3GG3
• Professor: Mel Rutherford

Document Summary

Social cognition is one of the core domains of development. Humans significantly outperformed adult chimps and orangutans on social cognitive tasks. No difference between chimps and orangutans regardless of their differing group size. Don"t read, haven"t been to school or been tutored (like the other groups) Learn how to solve a novel problem by watching. Non-linguistic cues to where an object is hidden. Attentional states communicate with someone who is paying attention to you or not. Understand what the actor intended to do but was unsuccessful. Not statistically different: perform tasks at roughly the same level of correct responses (0. 7). Humans performed significantly better than adult chimps and orangutans. But research shows they are not completely egocentric. Understand that others need a direct line of gaze to see what they themselves can see. Know whether or not you can see something, but don"t understand your different perspective.