PSYC 352 Study Guide - Final Guide: Crayola, Theism, Intentionality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 352
• Professor: Stanka A Fitneva

Document Summary

Infants born with particular beliefs which get tested/retested, motivated by equilibration: revised, sometimes radically changed in response to new experiences, central causal understandings end up being totally revised to come up with new understandings of how world works. Theory of mind: theory of mind: understanding that peoples" actions are caused by their internal mental states, including beliefs, desires, intentions. Just that the mental states they"re good at reasoning about are a little different from false belief i. e. understanding desires are person-specific before false belief. Infants as young as 5-months-old dishabituate to the new object event than the new side event: understanding intentionality, that people"s actions are goal-directed. Infants coming into world with representational understandings of mental states (nativist idea) Velcro on one side, then cover all toys in velcro: what if we gave infants grasping ability with sticky mittens, giving them ability to control objects in their world, after sticky mittens, children showed .