PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Broccoli, Mental Event, Global Precedence
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Appreciating that other people have a set of beliefs and that others" set of beliefs may be different. Theorise about others" mental state from what they say & do. Ability to predict another person"s behaviour from knowing that persons beliefs/intentions. 3 conditions: displacement, stop and think displacement, disappear condition. 4-year-olds perform poorly except 3rd condition 5-year-olds don"t. Young children have difficulty ascribing a false belief to another person. Sally-anne task briefer version of false belief task. Smarties task box of smarties but pencils in it. 3-year-olds lack insight into own mind (forget what they initially believed) Children perform correctly at a slightly earlier age (4) Infants of 7 months develop expectations about people and events. Understand intentional behaviours as goal-directed (e. g. new path/old object task) by 9-12 months. 12 months recognise that object-directed actions are intimately connected to a person"s perception & emotions (e. g. smile at object but grab another preferential looking)
