PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Major Depressive Disorder, Psychoanalysis, Social Cognition
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*wilson: can"t communicate with ants because no share interests. *young: human imagination master pre-articulate knowledge that affects your behavior. Child imitate mother by extract certain action and follow in different ways because child can"t articulate mother"s action. *even before human use language they lived by using imitation, imagination, articulation, symbolic representation. ** social cognition: primate social cognition: bigger your group, more social information you need. Your brain is set up to social information primarily. Most environment we live is social environment than nature. Dominant hierarchy is important in social structure especially dominant to determine reproduction for male. *eg of fundamental symbol: fashion: to be top of the fashion trend rep top of the hierarchy, clinical depression: self-assessment is lower than reality. *domain of known: if you act in certain way that you know what you are doing.
