PSYO 3092 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mental Representation, Sensory System, Folk Psychology
14 Jan 2016
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The challenges to social understanding during early development. A way for us to explain, categorize and predict behaviour. Has also been called theory of mind and folk psychology. We use this to understand why people do certain things and what their. Recursive: sometimes you can attribute psychological states on other intentions may be psychological states. If you want to accurately predict other people"s behaviour is you have to understand the other persons behaviour usually is and how their psychological state is. Trying to understand how the world works. Sometimes our cp is so good at interpreting our own perceived behaviours, we tend to make wrong interpretations of others actions, especially when the other person/animal is nonverbal. When we observe a behaviour, we tend to assume that that behaviour may be similar to the psychological state that we attribute to others. Have to be careful when creating explanations of others behaviours when using interpretations of your own behaviour.
