CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Cognition, Autism Spectrum, Spectrum Disorder
26 Mar 2017
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Our ability to ascribe mental states to other people and explain and predict their actions on the basis of those ascriptions. Lisa went to the library because she wanted to read darwin"s on the origin of species and she believed that she would find a copy of it there. (past) Lenny is telling his co-worker carl that he is going to a doctor"s appointment because he thinks that carl will get upset if he finds out that he is leaving work early to go bowling. (present) Bart will leave the house before homer returns from the pub because he wants to avoid getting in trouble for eating the last donut. (future) Mindreading exercise experiment (from charlie chaplin"s the circus) Ability that almost all humans possess after early childhood. Piaget (1936): before children develop this ability, they are egocentric in their thinking. Egocentrism: the inability to see things from another person"s point of view.
