Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes -Attachment Theory, Social Skills, Alarm Clock

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Our way of thinking about mental states is prefixed by maybe . We can never be certain we know what we or others are thinking. The mentalistic framework can also be called the intentional framework. We cannot help but use this cuz it is in fact a consequence of our biology. Mb ppl also may use reinforcement schedule explanations to explain behavior (behaviorist approach) Impossible for a mb person to imagine what it is like to be a mind-reader. Impossible for a mr person to imagine being mb: both can be compared to the impossibility of imagining what its like to be a bat (echolocation vs visual) Attribution of mental states is our natural way of understanding the social environment attribution of the states is to humans as echolocation is to the bat. Autistics are somewhat mindblind cuz they fail to develop the capacity to mindread in the normal way.