WEEK 12

Question 1

The primary for of language is

Answer 1

Interpersonal?

Question 2

Explain common ground?

Answer 2

A set of knowledge that the speaker and listener share and they assume or otherwise take for granted that they share.

Question 3

Explain audience design?

Answer 3

Constructing utterances to suit the audience’s knowledge.

Question 4

Explain lexicon

Answer 4

Words and expression

Question 5

Explain situational models?

Answer 5

A mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description.

Question 6

Explain priming?

Answer 6

Occurs when your thinking about one connect, and it remind you about other related concepts.

Question 7

Explain ingroups?

Answer 7

Groups to which a person belongs.

Question 8

Explain outgroup?

Answer 8

Group to which a person doesn’t belong.

Question 9

Explain linguistic intergroup?

Answer 9

Tendency for people to characterize positive things about their ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their ingroups using abstract expressions.

Question 10

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

Answer 10

The hypothesis that the language that people use determines their thoughts.

Question 11

Explain theory of mind?

Answer 11

The human capacity to understand minds.

Question 12

The role of theory in mind in social life?

Answer 12

Navigating social situations.

Question 13

Explain Intentional mental state?

Answer 13

Committing to perform an action that the agent believes will brings about a desired outcome.

Question 14

Explain intentionality?

Answer 14

The quality of an agents performing a behavior intentionally.

Question 15

Explain imitation and empathy?

Answer 15

Imitation is the human tendency to carefully observe others behaviors and do as they do- even if it is the first time the perceiver has seen this behavior A subtle, automatic form of imitation is called mimicry, and when people mutually mimic one another they can reach a state of synchrony

Question 16

How is synchronizing made possible?

Answer 16

Tightly link perceptual information with motor information.

Question 17

Explain automatic empathy

Answer 17

A social perceiver taking on the internal state of another person, usually because of mimicking the persons expressive behavior and thereby feeling the expressed emotion.

Question 18

Explain joint attention?

Answer 18

Two people attending to the same object and being aware that they are both attending to it.

Question 19

Explain projection

Answer 19

A social perceivers assumption that the other person wants, knows, or feels the same as the perceiver wants, know, or feels.

Question 20

Explain stimulation?

Answer 20

The process of representing the other person’s mental state.

Question 21

Explain false-beliefs?

Answer 21

An experimental procedure that assess whether a perceiver recognizes that another person has a false belief.

Question 22

Explain visual perspective taking:

Answer 22

Refers to visual perspective taking or more general effort to understand mental state inferences.

Question 23

Individuals diagnosed with autism can struggle with theory of mind because?

Answer 23

involves reading facial expressions and inferring intentions- ToM is important for helping us to communicate and understand each other- empathy, understand other peoples perspectives, and understand goals and intentions.