PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inhibitory Control Test, Egocentrism, Working Memory
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Intuitive psychology : the evolved human capacity to explain and predict this non- random, goal-directed behavior of intentional agents. Explored with verbal false belief tasks (sally-anne task) She now has a different true belief, that watermelon is in the yellow box: false belief condition - the actor is not present as the watermelon move boxes. In true belief condition, no surprise that the actor reaches in accordance with her beliefs. It would be a surprise if she reached for the green box for no reason (infants will stare longer) In false belief condition, no surprise that the actor reaches in accordance with her beliefs, even when they are wrong (the actor reaches for the green) It would be a surprise if she knew where the melon went when she was away (reach for yellow) **for a late competence prediction, it would be the opposite: match the predictions of early competence.
