PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nicaraguan Sign Language, Language Module, Social Skills
27 Dec 2016
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Everybody has a commonsensical lvl of psychological understanding. Na ve psychology: crucial to normal human functioning, major part of what makes us ppl, 3 concepts, desires, beliefs, actions, no one can see the 3 concepts. Infants na ve psychology: infants prefer to look at ppl faces rather than other objects infants imitate ppls facial movements ex. Sticking tongue out they do not imitate the motions of inanimate objects: development beyond infancy. Organized understanding of how mental processes influence behaviour: ex. False-belief problems: another person believes something is to be true that the child knows is false. Explaining the development of theory of mind: ex. Chapter 6: development of language and symbol use. Symbols systems for representing our thoughts, feelings, and knowledge and for communicating them to other people. Language comprehension understanding what others say (or sign or write) Language production actually speaking (or signing or writing) to others.
