POSC 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Joint Attention, Intersubjectivity, Autism Spectrum
6 Mar 2019
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General ideas or understanding used to group together objects, events, qualities, or abstractions that are similar in some way. Crucial for helping people make sense of the world. Nativists argue that innate understanding of concepts plays a central role in development. Theory of mind module in the brain, (tomm) a hypothesized brain mechanism devoted to understanding other human beings. Empiricists argue that concepts arise from basic learning mechanisms. Interactions with other people are crucial for developing theory of the mind. General information-processing skills are necessary to children to understand people"s minds. Infants prefer to look at people"s faces rather than other objects and prefer to watch human bodies moving instead of other displays with equal amounts of movement. Toddlers begin to show a grasp of several ideas that are crucial for psychological understanding. Infants and young children develop a naive psychology. Well organized understanding of how the mind works and how it influences behavior.
