PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Asperger Syndrome, Intellectual Disability, Neurotypical
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What does it involve: awareness that other people have desires, beliefs, motivations, and knowledge, these things explain their behavior. Understand her knowledge is different from your own: two different ways in which you can influence somebody"s behaviour (sabotage v. deception, manipulate physical environment (sabotage) Need ability to mentalize, no capacity for deception. The hidden curriculum : the unwritten social rules and expectations of behavior that we all seem to know, but were never taught, knowing when to talk and when to listen. E. g. kids eventually get it: knowing when to be honest and when not to be. Kids initially always honest; social trick: knowing what bodily behaviors are okay in public and what ones aren"t. E. g. picking their nose: knowing what questions may be awkward or inappropriate to ask. Anticipation of how other people will respond to it: inferring people"s moods by their facial expressions and body language.
