PSYC21H3 Lecture : Lecture 1 Notes

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Psyc21 advanced developemental psychology developmental neuroscience. Ex: empathy in humans and animals and where it developed. How early humans develop this capability and what are other creatues doing. Explicit and automatic processes, which parts of the brain involved. Nature of the human mind and how it differs. Ex: hot and cold cognition mind that calculates certain actions hot(more invested, more desire) and cold(not much attention or cognition needed in the brain: mind reading. Being able to read each other"s mind, anticipating, thinking ahead and understanding. But have other motivations, like desire to understand people and be heard by people and talk to people. Specific processes in the brain and mind that allow for us to make interpretations (neuro) Not important to get it right, but entertain any kind of hypotheses to know what one is really thinking, suspension of belief and accept assumptions about what one is saying. Being able to think in alternative view and update the info**