PSYC 354 Lecture 9: Social Understanding and Morality
28 Mar 2019
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Study guide will be very useful for the final. Two broad perspectives that try to answer the question how do we know other people have minds (including other thoughts, beliefs, etc. These two differ in the question of what do children have to learn in order to solve the problem of learning about other people? . One perspective to how children learn about other people. Example: see ball rolling down a hill - you don"t question what the ball wants; if you see a person rolling down a hill, you will wonder about what the person wants - what their goal is. Example; we don"t see a random body moving around in a kitchen - we see a person that is hungry moving toward the fridge in order to get food. We see people as beings with underlying psychological beliefs, thoughts, and desires. Assumption: from the theory of mind perspective, all we see is behaviour.
