WEEK 12 Flashcards
The primary for of language is
Interpersonal?
Explain common ground?
A set of knowledge that the speaker and listener share and they assume or otherwise take for granted that they share.
Explain audience design?
Constructing utterances to suit the audience’s knowledge.
Explain lexicon
Words and expression
Explain situational models?
A mental representation of an event, object, or situation constructed at the time of comprehending a linguistic description.
Explain priming?
Occurs when your thinking about one connect, and it remind you about other related concepts.
Explain ingroups?
Groups to which a person belongs.
Explain outgroup?
Group to which a person doesn’t belong.
Explain linguistic intergroup?
Tendency for people to characterize positive things about their ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their ingroups using abstract expressions.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
The hypothesis that the language that people use determines their thoughts.
Explain theory of mind?
The human capacity to understand minds.
The role of theory in mind in social life?
Navigating social situations.
Explain Intentional mental state?
Committing to perform an action that the agent believes will brings about a desired outcome.
Explain intentionality?
The quality of an agents performing a behavior intentionally.
Explain imitation and empathy?
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
How is synchronizing made possible?
Tightly link perceptual information with motor information.
Explain automatic empathy
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.
Explain joint attention?
Two people attending to the same object and being aware that they are both attending to it.
Explain projection
A social perceivers assumption that the other person wants, knows, or feels the same as the perceiver wants, know, or feels.
Explain stimulation?
The process of representing the other person’s mental state.
Explain false-beliefs?
An experimental procedure that assess whether a perceiver recognizes that another person has a false belief.
Explain visual perspective taking:
Refers to visual perspective taking or more general effort to understand mental state inferences.
Individuals diagnosed with autism can struggle with theory of mind because?
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.
