PS406 - Lecture 5
Piaget believed that children understand false beliefs. True or false? - correct answer-False,
he believed that children are egocentric until the concrete operational stage and so don't
understand false beliefs until later on
What are the for and against points for if gender is representational? - correct
answer-Kohlberg stated in her theory that gender identity is a representation (read gender
from a biological sex)
However, if it's a representation then you can be wrong about it
So if it is non-representational, then you can't be wrong about it and it's a claim about you
and not others
What did Piaget propose about sensorimotor learning? - correct answer-You control your
own movements by binding together your sense and actions, e.g. make muscle contractions
(sense) --> observe how they move your limbs (motion)
This allows infant to imitate people
He stated that children learn the actions when they copy others behaviour
What did Wittgenstein state against Piaget's theory of sensorimotor learning? - correct
answer-- We see actions, but we know how they're the product of intentions
- Intentions are non-representational MS and have moral values because we choose our
intentions
What is perceptual access reasoning? - correct answer-The ability to take in visual
information and organise it, interpret it, and use it to solve problems
What is the central theory of ToM? - correct answer-The ability to understand other's mental
state
What is the fixed order that Wellman (1990) suggested MS needs? - correct answer-1)
Emotions - understanding other's emotions begins in infancy
2) Desires, intentions, and self-control - these differ from person to person and all of these
make claims about you and not about someone else
3) Beliefs - what we think is true, but beliefs can be false as they're only representations
What is the theory of the mind (ToM)? - correct answer-This states that people have a
complex set of skills and knowledge, including:
- The understanding that we all have mental states
- The understanding that MS drives human behaviour
- The understanding that someone else's MS are separate from your own, and so can be
different from them
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