CAS PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Mental Model, Prenatal Development

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Stuart Phillips

Document Summary

3 year old tells people that the chocolate is in the 2nd cupboard even though the people don"t know that it"s in there: false belief task theory of mind: understanding that other people"s mental representations guide their behavior. Development more continuous and fluid, not like how piaget thought it was from grade to grade. Children acquire abilities earlier than piaget realized joint attention: ability to focus on what another person is focusing on imitation: social referencing: ability to use another person"s reactions as info about the world. Piaget noticed that children"s moral thinking tends to shift from realism to relativism , prescriptions to principles. Individual differences-what home you grow up in, siblings, parents raising you. Why humans develop as they typically do. Why some individuals develop differently than others. Emergence of the ability to think, reason, and understand: How the mind represents the physical world. How other minds represent the physical world.