PSYC 304 Lecture 12: Lecture 12

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Kristine Onishi

Document Summary

3 teaching events: with different cover pairs and one object all the time. Important that the outcome is different if the out(cid:272)o(cid:373)e is al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s the sa(cid:373)e, (cid:455)ou (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:374)oti(cid:272)e (that there is something interesting to pay attention to) The(cid:455)"re hopi(cid:374)g the kids (cid:449)ould figure out the relati(cid:448)e height of the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t. Trying to teach the kids something they would not naturally do differential outcomes / comparison. In the first three trials, nothing is surprising. But after the three teaching events, a surprising event occurs. The kids in the teaching condition were more surprised than the kids who got no training. What matters in making this difference: when the outcomes are the same (fully covered), they will not have any reason to pay attention. But when one of the (cid:272)o(cid:448)ers does(cid:374)"t full(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:448)er the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t, it is (cid:373)ore surprisi(cid:374)g. So having those 3 trials (cid:449)here the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t full(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:448)ered (cid:449)as (cid:271)e(cid:374)efi(cid:272)ial (cid:894)s > t(cid:895)