PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Folk Psychology, Great Dane

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16 Oct 2011

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University of Waterloo

Department

Psychology

Course

PSYCH211

Professor

Ori Friedman

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Many different ideas about what a concept is. Cartoons to be able to get the joke, you have to be able to understand what other people are thinking, or how they view the world. We have an ability to consider how others see the world, using this ability makes the cartoons funny (ex. what the characters know, think, believe, and want) In order to understand how people act (behaviour), you must think about their beliefs and wants. Mental state concepts: know, think, believe, want (ex. your belief is a mental state, someone else thinking about your belief is using their concept of your mental state. Animals cannot think about beliefs, but they can have them. There is a distinction between having mental states and reasoning about them. Reasoning about these mental states are called: naive psychology (folk psychology), theory of mind, mental state reasoning.

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28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes; gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities; sex typing E) gender identities; gender behaviour

28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes, gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities, sex typing E) gender identities, gender behaviour

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11. During dinner one evening, Arial mentions that she just read in a popular magazine that a particular herbal substance improves memory. She's very excited about trying this supplement in hopes that it might improve her grades. Sitting across the table from her, Juan is skeptical. He begins to ask her about such things as the nature of the evidence regarding the herb's effectiveness and how big the memory improvement effect is supposed to be. Juan's behavior is most consistent with which of the following concepts discussed in the text? A) Gestalt psychology B) functionalism C) British empiricism D) critical thinking E) A & C are both correct

PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Folk Psychology, Great Dane

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