You And Others
A common-sense level of psychological understanding that everyone has.
What is naïve psychology?
This word is used to refer to activities pursued for their own sake.
What is play?
Researchers will often _______ for potential confounding variables, in an effort to get the most accurate results possible.
What is control?
Infants in their first half-year have a basic sense of time, including order and _______.
What is duration?
The "Great Debate" between these two schools of thought.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
What is early?
Make-believe activities in which children create new symbolic relations.
What is pretend play?
Children were separated into unilingual and ______ groups.
What is bilingual?
Children rely heavily on this to infer why both psychological and physical events occur.
What is causality?
General ideas to organize "things" in the world around you.
What are concepts?
Understanding how psychological processes, like perceptions and emotions, influence behavior.
What is theory of mind?
This occurs when toddlers tend to act out more complex plays when with older members, and less so with their peers.
What is scaffolding of learning?
Participants that chose words that were semantically similar, scored higher than those who chose words that were ________ similar.
What is phonetically?
Knowing the location of an object, even when hidden from view.
What is enduring object representation?
This country is where Afrikaan is spoken.
What is South Africa?
Understanding that people share information when talking or communicating.
What is inter-subjectivity?
A more complex form of pretend play, toddlers may choose to engage in these ______, planning elaborate tea parties or pretending to be a mother caring for a child.
What are sociodramatic plays?
In _______ groups, bilingual children chose semantically related words more frequently.
What is younger?
Through ________, infants can improve their object representation.
What is crawling?
The process of making sense of the world around you.
What is conceptual development?
By age 2, children understand desires lead to actions, but not this ____.
What are beliefs?
This action, common amongst children playing games with rules, often leads to conflict.
What is cheating?
The Afrikaan word for "concept."
What is konseptuele?
Children and adults have deeper understanding of ___________ causes rather than physical.
What is psychological?
This person said, “If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!”
Who is Minsky M.A.?