You will explore studies examining three topics (time, causality and theory of mind) in three different participant groups (children, adults, and non-human animals). Our aim will be an integration of evidence across these groups to address what it is to understand these topics.
Lecture material may cover the following areas:
- Development of thinking about time
- Non-human animals’ understanding of time
- Heuristics and biases in human adults’ thinking about time
- Children’s thinking about causality
- Folk physics in non-human animals
- Adults’ thinking and reasoning about causes
- Development of theory of mind
- Theory of mind in non-human animals
- Theory of mind in human adults
Key skills
- Critical thinking
- Integration and comparison
- Problem solving
- Gathering information
- Report writing
- Using initiative
- Written communication