PSYC21H3 Lecture : Social Mind II
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Video key findings that differentiate animals from humans. Nature of mind-reading capacity assumption of what it is. child is anticipating and figuring out the goal and think out what the person is trying to do. child checking out context to understand what the person is doing and it influences their intentions (reading into the situation) at 14months, able to differentiate between behaviour inconsistencies (slide hand and head diff picture infant can rationalize based on context. Folk psych (tt and st) vs. interaction theory. galager reading paradigm of no access to other people"s content of mind perception don"t allow us to gain that knowledge - therefore critiques self-awareness and being aware of other people as well. We are scientists, make observations don"t really know create these stories to bridge the. Intersubjective gap come with a theory st and tt having this hypothesis and working theory of what"s going on in other people.
