Welcome to your Chapter 13 - Self Study Quiz
1. What process does Alan Leslie think occurs during pretend play?
2. According to Alan Leslie, what does pretend play require?
3. Why, according to Leslie, do autistic children tend to fail the false belief task?
4. Why might young infants be incapable of passing the explicit false belief task?
5. According to Baron-Cohen, which three capacities do young infants (before 9 months) possess before they develop a full-fledged mind reading system?
6. What are the two systems Baron-Cohen claims develop immediately prior to Leslie’s theory of mind mechanism (TOMM)?
7. According to the Baron-Cohen model, which detector allows the infant to identify purposeful movements?
8. Which capability do psychopaths have problems with?
9. Infants can look at objects because they see that another person is looking at the object. Which capacity is this?
10. In Goldman’s model of simulationism, where do we get our knowledge of others’ beliefs?
11. Which feature of standard simulationism does radical simulationism reject?
12. Which of the following theorist(s) hold that there is no specialized theory of mind mechanism?
13. According to simulationists, what region plays the fundamental role in mindreading?
