PSYC 309 Quiz: Reading Minds.docx
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A sarcastic comment, clip from finding nemo. Continuation of the shark vs dory and nemo"s dad from last time. Shark chases the fish to submarine with loaded torpedo. Torpedo comes out and hits the sea mines, explosions. Video pans to two birds sitting on top of water, bubble appears beside one bird, other bird says nice," and flies away. Usually intended to express ridicule or reservation of an idea. Children use # of cues to judge whether a speaker is intended to be ironic/sarcastic. Speaker"s tone of voice, whether statement echoes stated or implicit expectations of event outcomes, inflection of sentence. According to earlier models, irony can be detected only after the literal meaning has been processed and rejected. Later models suggest cues are rapidly processed in parallel and an ironic interpretation is considered as soon as there is sufficient evidence that it might be supported.
