Social Cognition Flashcards
Cognition about people, their thoughts and their actions
Social cognition
Social cognition includes
Preferences for social stimuli; joint attention, eye gaze, pointing; internal working models; understanding desires, beliefs and intentions, theory of mind, pretense, understanding traits
From perceptual to conceptual, or from obvious to subtle
Surface to depth
A sense of the game
understand that different goals exist
predictions and influence
Similarities between social and non-social cognition
- Surface to depth
- The pull of the present
- Construction of invariants
- Abstract and hypothetical thinking
- Cognitive shortcomings
- a sense of the game
Early preferences for _____ _______ and ______
human speech, faces
_______- _______ perception permits social engagement
Cross-modal
Joint attention is used well at ___ months
9
Presented with new situation stimuli
uncertain
babies “consult” social agents
Social Referencing
_____ _______ _______ can be used in a broad way or a precise way
Theory of mind
Knowledge about the mind:
naive psychology
folk psychology
Broad theory of mind
Theory theory
Coherent framework for causal systems
Precise
Later developments in knowledge about the mind
Visual perception Attention Desires Emotions Intentions Beliefs and mental representations Pretense Thinking
4 facts about attention
Selective attention
Mind is constructive
Limited capacity
Stimuli processed at different levels of attention and awareness
_______ exist differently among people
Desires
Young children understand _____ leads to knowing and _____ _____ leads to not knowing
Seeing, not seeing
Understood and used by young children
similar to knowledge necessary for false beliefs
Pretense
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
Thinking
Theories
Theory theory
Modularity theory
Simulation theory
Children have an informal theory about how the mind works
Theory theory
_________ _________ suggests maturational processes drive development
Modularity nativism
Assumes biological predisposition of social understanding
Experience is a mere trigger
Different from experiential theory revision
Modularity theory
- May arise from experiences like pretend play
- Awareness of one’s own mental states used to make inferences about the status of others’ minds
Simulation theory
Theory of mind has _____ orders
2 orders
