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Developmental Psych
Ch 7-Conceptual
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/21/2008

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concept
Definition
general ideas or understandings
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category hierarchy
Definition
categories that are related by set/subsset relations
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perceptual categorization
Definition
the grouping together of objects with similar appearances
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superordinate level
Definition
the most general level within a categorical hierarchy
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basic level
Definition
the middle level within a categorical hierarchy
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subordinate level
Definition
the most specific level within a categorical hierarchy
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naive psychology
Definition
a commonsense understanding of the self and others
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theory of mind
Definition
a basic understanding of how the mind works and how it influences behavior
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false belief problems
Definition
the problem with the smarties in the pencil box
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theory of mind module (TOMM)
Definition
a hypothesized brain module that is devoted to understanding what the fuck those crazy humans are up to
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essentialism
Definition
the idea that living things have an essence inside them that makes them what they are
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egocentric representation
Definition
coding of spatial locations relative only to one's body
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dead reckoning
Definition
the ability to keep track of one's location relative to the starting point
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numerical equality
Definition
the realization that all sets of # of objects have something in common
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subsitizing
Definition
the ability to look at a few objects and immediately know how many there are
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one-one correspondence
Definition
each object must be labeled by a single number word
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stable order
Definition
the numbers must always be in the same order
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cardinality
Definition
the number of objects corresponds to the last number said
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order irrelevance
Definition
objects can be counted in any order
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abstraction
Definition
anything can be counted
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