PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Teddy Bear, Broccoli
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In contrast to piaget"s stage-like process of learning about the world (through your experience), contemporary psychologists core knowledge: human are endowed (see slides) New knowledge build on these innate core foundations. Four core systems: objects, number, geometry, agents. We do this really naturally; it"s instinctive; we"re obsessed with mental states. Infants have a di erent way of reasoning about objects vs about people. Individuals who have a way of moving on their own (and to which we attribute mental states) are agents. It"s not useful to use actual actors to determine which speci c feature infants use to determine whether or not a thing is an agent, because infants have so many experiences interacting with humans. : instead, we use novel stimuli: made-up novel creatures: infants have no experience/conditioning with them; they are also simpli ed so we can manipulate speci c traits.
