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Innate Knowledge of the Social World

Innate Knowledge of the Social World. Psychology Live Nov 18, 2009. Core Cognition. Object, Number, and Agent Representations. Core Cognition of Agency. Primitive Building Blocks (Fiske). Communal Sharing Equality Matching Hierarchy/Dominance. Cooperative Relations. Communal sharing

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Innate Knowledge of the Social World

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  1. Innate Knowledge of the Social World Psychology Live Nov 18, 2009

  2. Core Cognition • Object, Number, and Agent Representations

  3. Core Cognition of Agency

  4. Primitive Building Blocks (Fiske) • Communal Sharing • Equality Matching • Hierarchy/Dominance

  5. Cooperative Relations • Communal sharing • Shared goals • Helping others attain goals

  6. Harm/Comfort Help/hinder Harm/comfort Positive attitude to comforter Negative attitude to harmer Draws on representations of emotional distress, and causal relations among agents, and assigns valence based on relations • Positive attitude to helper • Negative attitude to hinderer Draws on representations of agency, but adds to them: Represent actions in terms of goals, interactions of goals, and assigns valence based on relations

  7. Motivation to Help 18-month-olds Chimpanzees Only out of reach • Out of reach • Obstacles • Wrong result • Wrong means

  8. Dominance? • Question: do preverbal infants recognize cases of conflicting goals among agents, such that both cannot prevail? • Do they have any way of predicting which one will prevail?

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