PSY 3135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Cognition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3135
• Professor: Stuart Hammond

Document Summary

Gaze detection: respond differentially when someone/thing is watching you. Geometric gaze following: aware that others" perspective is different. Target of attention: use information of where a person is looking to inform own behaviour. Competition and cooperation: some animals appear to display tom-like skills in competitive contexts. Scrub jays will re-cache something if observed: some appear to display tom-like skills in cooperative contexts. Dogs and competition: dogs steal in the dark . Dogs are more likely to steal food when the food is. Recache food in a site that is different from the one where it was cached when the competitor was present : such heuristics do not require representations of others" mental states, like know or see . Evolution as fluid/evolution as fixed: we"ve mostly looked at evolution as fluid. A logic underlying a great deal of thinking of human social characteristics. Examples: mating preferences/competition, territoriality (sense of what space or possessions are ours), preference for sugar/fatty foods.