L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Enterprise, Cognitive Development, Language Disorder
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At each age, they can hold only a certain amount of information. At age 2, we can hold 1 piece of info, at age 4 we can hold 2 pieces, age 10, 4pieces. Mechanism that causes the stage shifts is increased memory capacity. No theory of world, but theories of psych/physics/etc. Anne takes the marble from sally"s basket and into anne"s own box. 4 year olds pass and say in the basket . 3 year olds fail and say in the box . The role of task demands: borke (1975)- 3 mountain task (drawing issue, 3d), deloache et al. (1997)- shrinking room task (understand meaning of model), hawkins et al. (1984)- syllogisms. There is more to passing the false belief task than tom (theory of. False belief task: older (9 yrs), autistic children fail. This pattern could be interpreted as poor tom: Is there more to tom than passing the false belief task.
