Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Instant Camera, Down Syndrome, Inductive Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Show child a display with a face in the middle with 4 candies around it. 1/4 times they get it right, 25% Asked kid 2 questions: (1) which candy is charlie looking at: 3-4 year olds and autism group both at 100% (2) which candy does charlie want, 3/4 year olds at 100% and autism children at 25% Autism groups cant infer mental states based on behaviour: theory of mind: ability to attribute mental states in order to predict and explain behaviour. Behaviour: examples --> gaze, action and language. From that behaviour try to explain it in terms of mental states. Can use those mental states to make predictions of behaviour. General issue: inference--> going from old knowledge to new knowledge. Mathematical inference: 6 + 4 = 10. 6 + 4 is the old and get the new information which is the sum of the two numbers.