Theory of Mind 1
Define empathy
What is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another?
The word for having excessive interest in oneself and concern for one’s own welfare or advantage at the expense of or in disregard of others.
What is egocentrism?
Define materialism
What is the position that everything, including mental events, is composed of physical matter and is thus subject to the laws of physics; the mind is considered to exist solely as a set of brain processes?
The view that the mind and the body both exist as separate entities
What is dualism?
Define mental state
What is a mental capacity that includes perceptions, mood, and cognition?
The word for the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternate point of view, such as that of another individual
What is perspective taking?
Define the Mind-Body Problem
What is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body?
The word for a being that's physically indistinguishable from an actual or possible human being but completely lacks consciousness
What is Philosophical Zombie?
Define social cognition
What is the various psychological processes that enable individuals to take advantage of being part of a social group?
The word for the quality of mental states that consists in their being directed toward some object or state of affairs
What is intentionality?
Define emergentism
What is the belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind?
The word for the hypothesis of a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by an ordinary person
What is Cosmic Consciousness Hypothesis?
Define metacognition
What is the awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes?
Define the Hard Problem of Consciousness
What is the issue of explaining why any organism is conscious, has qualia, and/or has subjective experience?
A micro sociological theory, which links self attitudes, or identities, to the role relationships and role-related behavior of individuals
What is Identity Theory?
The word that describes instances of subjective, conscious experience
What is qualia?