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Social Cognition Flashcards

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Cognition about people, their thoughts and their actions

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Social cognition

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Social cognition includes

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Preferences for social stimuli; joint attention, eye gaze, pointing; internal working models; understanding desires, beliefs and intentions, theory of mind, pretense, understanding traits

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From perceptual to conceptual, or from obvious to subtle

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Surface to depth

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A sense of the game

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understand that different goals exist

predictions and influence

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Similarities between social and non-social cognition

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  • Surface to depth
  • The pull of the present
  • Construction of invariants
  • Abstract and hypothetical thinking
  • Cognitive shortcomings
  • a sense of the game
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Early preferences for _____ _______ and ______

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human speech, faces

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_______- _______ perception permits social engagement

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Cross-modal

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Joint attention is used well at ___ months

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Presented with new situation stimuli
uncertain
babies “consult” social agents

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Social Referencing

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_____ _______ _______ can be used in a broad way or a precise way

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Theory of mind

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Knowledge about the mind:
naive psychology
folk psychology

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Broad theory of mind

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Theory theory

Coherent framework for causal systems

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Precise

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Later developments in knowledge about the mind

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Visual perception
Attention
Desires
Emotions
Intentions
Beliefs and mental representations
Pretense
Thinking
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4 facts about attention

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Selective attention
Mind is constructive
Limited capacity
Stimuli processed at different levels of attention and awareness

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_______ exist differently among people

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Desires

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Young children understand _____ leads to knowing and _____ _____ leads to not knowing

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Seeing, not seeing

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Understood and used by young children

similar to knowledge necessary for false beliefs

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Pretense

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Something inanimate objects do not, but humans do
Different from external objects/ events
_______ has content and refers to things/ events
Underestimations and overestimations of thinking

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Thinking

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Theories

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Theory theory
Modularity theory
Simulation theory

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Children have an informal theory about how the mind works

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Theory theory

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_________ _________ suggests maturational processes drive development

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Modularity nativism

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Assumes biological predisposition of social understanding
Experience is a mere trigger
Different from experiential theory revision

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Modularity theory

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  • May arise from experiences like pretend play

- Awareness of one’s own mental states used to make inferences about the status of others’ minds

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Simulation theory

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Theory of mind has _____ orders

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2 orders

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I know, that you know that I know is an example of ______ _______

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Recursive thinking

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Recursive thinking is a ______ order theory of mind

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2nd

27
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Understanding self as an individual between _______ months

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15- 24

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Representational understanding of others’ minds
Prototypical false belief tasks:
-failed by most 3 y/o
-passed by many 4 y/o
-Nearly universal mastery by 5 y/o

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Theory of Mind

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