PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Telepathy, Intentionality, Mirror Neuron
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Helping: goal and intentions, perception and knowledge, false belief understanding. Self-recognition: self-recognition and the sense of self: rouge test- looking at the mirror at age 2. A physical identity: the mark test, your body belongs to you. Helps us understand our own point of view: theory of mind. Global sense: other are different from you. Others may be driven by different goals and intentions. Narrow sense: to be able to represent oneself as a thinking. Empathy: affective/contagion empathy: being able to show empathy, mirror neurons for emotion: neurons fire when you feel an expression, almost like telepathy when you see someone else sad/emotion, basic building block of empathy, you smile i smile. I don"t necessarily understand why you feel that way but i share your emotion. Lecture 5- social cognition: reaching: humans reaching/expressing they want the object, there is a small effect of reward.
