PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Job Performance, Dazed, Psychoanalytic Theory
15 Mar 2017
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Imitation oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one"s own. Ability to understand others and themselves (i. e. people can think other things different from you) Is the ability to attribute mental states beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc. Meltzoff(cid:495)s (cid:498)like me(cid:499) (ypothesis (cid:498)they (cid:523)infants(cid:524) can use the self to understand the. Imitation is thought is occur from birth babies will replicate the facial. Key to understanding the mental states of others. Rational imitation by 14-month-olds (gergely et al. ) Infants watched experimenter turn on the light with their head (either with their hands visible on the table or not) infants will turn on the light when the experimenters hand is present on the table. Rational imitation can also be seen in 12-month-olds dog, house and chimney (schwier et al. Their beliefs can be incorrect (you may know something that others may not)
