PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Eye Tracking, Executive Functions, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Ori Friedman

Document Summary

Deceptive container false belief task, self questions (sometimes aka. Theory theory, conceptual change, social interactionists child needs to develop of. All about learning 3 year old does not already know what a 4 year old does. Maybe child is like a little scientist. Maybe at 3, they don"t have theory/understanding of belief need to undergo conceptual change (some kind of learning) to acquire understanding of beliefs theory of mental states. Scenario 1: child goes from having no beliefs gets understanding. Scenario 2: child has theory of beliefs but it is bad or wrong for them get a better one by age 5 for example. Basically, child may lack concept belief, or they may have flawed/incomplete concept innate. Even as child is failing false belief tasks, they already have necessary. May have some area in brain that is specialized early on in making sense of. Social interactions important especially with older siblings (like a couple years.