PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Cognitive Development, Dishabituation
12 Jul 2018
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Forming these broad categories enable children to draw accurate inferences about unfamiliar entities: eg. They recognise mammals, they notice the similarities between this group compared with other animals (ie. fish: young infants appear to categorise on the basis of perceptual similarity. Infants have an enormous interest in other humans: prefer to watch people, than watch other things. Imitate peoples facial movements - perhaps innate, perhaps develops very early: meltzoff and moore (1977): new-born infants imitate facial gestures. Imitation suggests children represent actions of self and of other using common representations: gains interest form adults by imitating them, this then kick starts the social components. Infants na ve psychology: around 12 months of age children begin engaging in joint attention. False belief task: (cid:373)ajority of 3 yo do(cid:374)"t pass, (cid:373)ajority of (cid:1009) yo pass: people act according to belief rather than act upon reality. Failure indicates children have difficulty understating that people act on beliefs.
