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14 Cards in this Set
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Goldfish broccoli experiment
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even 18 months can give the food the other person showed preference for--shows understanding for other people having different opinions
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Deception tasks
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even 2.5 or 3 year olds can participate when asked to "trick" someone, and may be better at judging the person's false belief if they are involved with deception
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some tasks, such as teaching a new game to someone who is blindfolded show children not having theory of mind until
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12 years old
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young children may think they have
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more control over their thoughts than older children or adults
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8 and 10 year olds do not
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categorize mental activities in the same way as adults – do not distinguish between comprehension and attention, not as likely to discriminate between different types of memory
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children may focus more on
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inputs and outputs than on the nature of the mental activity.
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general ideas of theory of mind/thinking
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• Children’s thinking about mental states and thinking processes (both their own and those of others) is different than adult’s thinking.
• Developments in these areas happen gradually all throughout childhood and are affected by the nature of the individual task. |
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imposing categories allows us to
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group instead of processing every individual thing separately
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categorization provides insight to
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children's conceptual thoughts
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categorization
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ability to treat a set of things as somehow equivalent, put in same pile, call by same name, respond in the same way
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infants 3-4 months perceptual features
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habituation, preferential looking (prefer to look at one that's not in same category of what already looked at)
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superordinate, basic level, subordinate
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animals, dogs, collies
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superordinate contrasts
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animals: horse, spider, chicken, fish
vehicles: airplane, motorcycle, truck, train 12-15 month olds, reliable sequence for basic level contrasts, not for superordinate though 20 months, reliable sequence for both |
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perceptual bases for of conceptual development
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may guide (especially early) development of conceptual categories
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