PSY 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psy, Situation Two, Intersubjectivity
24 Dec 2016
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Mental states these 3 components are all invisible. Joint attention - 2 or more people refer to the same thing. Social referencing - you refer to someone else socially to figure out how to deal with a situation. Look to other people to figure it out how other people are reacting and know what to do, ex: babies can look up to facial expression, tone of voice. Intentionally understanding that people act based on their intentions, desires. Babies watch the experimenter trying to pull one of the connected blocks off but failing. Then they were given a toy and they performed the target act. The control group (who didn"t watch the experimenter) did not know what to do with the toy. A machine was trying to pull the block off and neither of the groups pulled the ends off. The machine did not represent a human with intentions, babies understood the intention of the human, but not the machine.
