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