CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dopamine Receptor D4, Frontal Lobe, Executive Functions
14 Dec 2014
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Cognitive-developmental: parallels cognition in piaget"s stages, selman"s role-taking theory. Ability to understand other person"s perspective develops. Presented interpersonal dilemmas with multiple characters to children. Selman"s stages: egocentric or undifferentiated, social-informational role taking, self-reflective role taking, mutual role taking, societal role taking. Social cognition: role-taking skills improve as social cognition develops changes relationships, role-taking skills are related to iq, role-taking skills are related to social experience. Theory of mind: understanding that human action is motivated by underlying mental states. False beliefs: dissociation in development: understanding of beliefs and photographs both develop between 3- and 4-years, but, performance is not typically correlated (e. g. , zaitchik, 1991, training on one does not affect performance on the other (slaughter, 1998) 95 children (ages 3;2 to 4;11, m = 4;0: representation tasks: 2 false photo tasks: executive function (inhibitory control): Correlations: chinese preschoolers, possible advanced emergence of frontal function, ethnographic data. Observations of schools: clinical and population genetics. Ad/hd, frontal functioning, & drd4 7-repeat allele.
