PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 18 Months, Habituation
27 Dec 2018
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Their capacity to employ and accept psychological explanations of human behaviour, and to predict behaviour on psychological grounds, become increasingly sophisticated. The ability to explore and manipulate mental concepts emerges gradually; such an explicit capacity lags well behind an implicit understanding of the intentional nature of human behaviour. Measuring the ability to manipulate mental concepts, the results emerges a lot later than we think. Un sum, children"s understanding of persons becomes more elaborate and flexible, increasingly taking in and coordinating aspects of mental life. Sally leaves her ball in a basket and goes away . While she is away, the ball is moved by anne the child is simply asked where will sally look for her ball? . The child is required to put away what they saw/their knowledge and put themselves in sally"s perspective. False belief - sally thinks the ball is in the basket. It all depends how old you are.
