PSYC23H3 Lecture : PSYC23 LEC 12.docx
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Plato"s cave allegory: cave is important how we solve certain limitation of the mind. Jan van eyke"s arnolfini: we have a cognitive overload. Its hard to listen to someone"s argument when you are trying to argue yourself. Limitation: we have a mechanism that helps us occupy other people"s frame of reference. We are social learners: when social learning is helping us and working well - how evolutionary it is and how adaptive it is. If you imitate what others are doing it has a survival benefit. There are real forces at work that force us to be imitators. How do we not cut us off from other people when we want to think about ourselves: cameloneon effect. People who have no neurological capacity to imitate the most. Autistic people (often get blamed for their inability to imitate) Doesn"t seem to learn when around social situations. video - autistic - prefers to play alone.
