Psychology 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Electrodermal Activity, Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Mentalization

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 15
• Professor: Joshua Greene

Document Summary

Structure: agents and objects, anthropomorphism, dimensions of mind. Perception: attribution theory, theory of mind, autism. Heider & simmel: an experimental study of apparent behavior: big triangle, small triangle, small circle o. Self-propelled motion seems even more social: equifinality or goal-directedness if something tries to end up in the same place, it looks like it has a mind. 14 month old children infer rationality (gergely: children watch woman turn light on with her head o. Amygdala damage and agency detection (heberlein & adolphs) o. Patient sm: damage to both sides of her amygdale, two triangles and circle were shown. A description from a normal subject vs. description from patient sm. Patient sm"s description was much more straightforward (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) Normal patient had a much more social reading of the of the situation. Sm uses fewer affect words and many more motion words. Sm has low affect, low social processes, high movement.