PSYC 569 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deontological Ethics, Categorical Imperative, Somatosensory System
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Mind perception: perceiving someone as having experience and agency: terms: Mind: the mind is something that you perceive. Empathy: umbrella term or understanding of another"s emotion. Theory of mind: awareness of another"s knowledge (pencil box experiment) She"s wearing a sweater she probably doesn"t think so. Can"t know what other"s think but can see how they react: problem of other minds: can experience your own mind. Can"t experience anyone else"s language, behavior, facial expressions. Experience: the ability to experience emotion and sensation/feel: how much are we morally responsible if we harm it, high warmth woman are warmer. Agency: the ability to plan and complete actions and choose: morally responsible for doing something, high competence men are perceived as more competent. Examples: normal humans: high in experience and agency, infants and animals: high in experience, low in agency, god and google: agency but no experience, dead people: neither agency or experience, anthropomorphism: putting human features on an object.
