PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Universal, Content Analysis, Counterintuitive
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You may not know the name of this but you place it into the. Animal template and you apply everything you know about animals into it. Ex: it can walk on four legs, it won"t float or walk through walls, it eats. A chair that can float in midair : transfer: the misapplication of a core knowledge intuition to an inappropriate domain. A mailbox crying because it was sad (transfer of intuitive psychology to an object) Minimally counterintuitive (mci) concepts: the number of violations matter, 0 violations = ordinary concept. A lizard that ate insects off the ground and crawled around quickly on all four of its feet : 1 - 2 violations = minimally counterintuitive concept. A rat that had a long, thin tail and could never die no matter how old it was : 3+ = maximally counterintuitive concept.
