DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Theory-Theory, Social Cognition, Mentalization
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Piaget: preschoolers fail to distinguish the mental from the physical. 3-4 years: distinguish thinking from doing; see thinking as internal, private, and just mental, in contrast to overt, public, and physically consequential action. Psychological reasoning young children might view mental states and processes as completely divorced from the physical world. Adults mind and world causally interact (mental states provide causes and explanations for persons" actions) reasoning about the origins of mental states (e. g. she wants food because she is hungry) Na ve psychology: desires are grounded from drives and preferences; beliefs are grounded from perceptual-historical experiences. False-belief task typically 4-5 years and older accurately predict that jill will mistakenly look for the object in the original location. Jill"s action is predicted on the basis of her representation of the world rather than the world itself. Difference between contents of the mind and contents of the world: ability to reason about how mind influences action.
