CD 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8.4: Theory-Theory
9 Apr 2017
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Privileged domains are changes within speci c areas of knowledge acquisition: privileged in that they involve speci c kinds of reasoning that have evolutionary signi cance. Domains relevant to early childhood: physics, psychology, and biology. Direct children to attend to and respond to highly speci c and important features of the environment. The domain of physics: children"s attempt to reason physics is referred to naive or intuitive physics. Research on naive physics uses the violation-of-expectations method: testing to see if a child reacts to an outcome that should not happen, by 5-6 children have developed a serviceable set of ideas about the physical world. The domain of psychology: children reason about people. How people"s actions are affected by their internal mental states. The ability to construct coherent theories about how people"s beliefs and desires combined shape their actions. To determine if a child has a theory of mind, developmentalists use false-belief tasks.
