PSYCH 3GG3 Study Guide - Order Of Newfoundland And Labrador, Animacy

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

Document Summary

Understanding that children develop that people can have different thoughts and beliefs than their own. And people will act on the basis of their thoughts and beliefs. Ability to use another person"s mental states to explain and predict other people"s behaviours (beliefs, desires, goals) Psychological process that allows us to understand another"s mental state. Appreciate that an object can look like one thing but actually be something else. Reality = sponge but appearance = rock and asked what does it look like. I know something but someone else doesn"t, what will they say. Understand there can be a difference between appearance and reality. Discuss appearance-reality distinction and what the difference is. Know how behaviours are related to goals and intentions. Think about other people and themselves based on 3 invisible constructs. Child may not understand and thus we may underestimate their competence. Make inferences based on what the person knows. Actor should have a false- belief knowledge wtf!