PSYCH 241H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Cocktail Party
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Psych201h - lecture 10 - understanding self & others. When distracted and hearing your name, you are instantly focus on finding where the name was spoken. It turns out that dolphins and elephants are able to recognize themselves and are aware of what is happening to them (and their existence) The development of a theory of mind. Infants at both ages dishabituated to the same reach case, suggesting that they expected the hand to reach for the same goal. 1 y: understand that people"s desires guide their actions. 2 y: understand the connection between other people"s desires and their specific. 3 y: understand that desires and beliefs affect behavior, but have difficulty with. 5 y: find false-belief problems very easy actions, but show little understanding that beliefs are also influential false-belief problems. By 52 months, the child was not able to be fooled by the false belief. Implicit: early learned or present at birth.