PSYCH 2410 Lecture Notes - Folk Psychology, Biological Motion, Cardinality
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Limitations: successful discrimination depends on ratio between numbers. Babies can discriminate numbers of: sounds, visual objects, events. Infant arithmetic: wynn, added balls behind a trap door and babies noticed and looked longer when more were added or taken away. Counting: with counting, you can get better accuracy, developing during 3-6 years of age, counting principles (what you need, one-to-one correspondence, stable order, cardinality, order irrelevance, abstraction. Concepts of space: significant developments, foundations of concept similar to other animals, but . Concept of number: core knowledge early competence, but . Theory of mind: understanding that people"s behavior is motivated by internal mental states, folk psychology or na ve psychology. When she heard the noise she thought or believed her dog was in the shed. If it is a broom following same pattern human was in gaining a goal babies pay no attention. Interpreting new behavior in terms of past behavior a.
