PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Empiricism
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Wugs v. gillies study: group of 4-5 year olds, wugs: armored, rough physical traits, gillies: wings, big ears, softer traits, frist group of kids just got description while the second group got descriptions of the. Wugs and gillies as well as a background story to explain why they were like the way they are: second group with background story did much better at identifying. Knowledge of people and oneself: na ve psychology: commonsense level of understanding of self and people, do you understand yourself and others? . Theory of mind: desire and action can"t identify what other"s desire over their own desires, belief and action can"t recognize that other"s think in their own, independent ways; what they think is what everyone thinks, false-belief problems. By two years old kids can develop the idea of desire and action broccoli and goldfish experiment. Nativist: theory of mind (tomm): this part of the brain is just used for the specific function.
