PSYCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kinsey Scale, Stereotype Threat, Mental Rotation
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Knowledge that other people have thoughts and beliefs different from your own. False belief task - cereal box exp. Broad spectrum of diagnoses ranging from low to high functioning. Social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. Refrigerator mom - cold (unloving) moms lead to antisocial child. Parent is partially responsible for responsiveness and attachment but child also needs to reciprocate. If the child doesn"t reciprocate, parent will, over time, stop responding. Brain sizes at an early age can predict diagnoses later. 30 m/o (2. 5 yrs) can reliably tell, continual efforts to lower age of diagnoses. Early intervention (goodness of fit, not treatment) Gender: social norm that we associate with the biological sex. Gender intensification: can identify more with gender than before. There are slight differences between genders but not any major ones. Males better at mental rotation, physical (testosterone) Girls have better verbal and boys have better math abilities starting around middle school.
