PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Child Development, Intentionality, Mirror Test
22 Nov 2016
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Socio-emotional development - self understanding - nov 3rd/16. We got this from animal consciousness research (gallup, 1970) odorless dye on their faces. When they woke up he put them in front of the mirror to see what they. We cant ask infants what they know about themselves. Self understanding how we understand who and what we are (cid:498)self is a slippery cncept whose adequate definition is irritatingly elusive(cid:499) . Ties to cognitive development piagetian development, metacognitive. Self-recognition you could recognize yourself in a mirror. Pre-verbal infants place infront of mirror to see if they can recognize self. Went a step further knocked out the chimps, while asleep he placed some would do they tried to take the dye off. )f a chimp hadn"t looked in the mirror first, they wouldn"t care about the dye. They needed to know that that was them in the mirror first.
