PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 - Social Cognition (Nov 16)
11 Feb 2019
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Ties to cognitive development: developmental course of both cognitive and social-cognitive development, from concrete to abstract, from centered to qualified, from egocentric viewpoint to general viewpoint, but, objects do not do anything surprising, people do crazy stuff. People are not objects: three basic differences between people and objects, (1). Livesley & bromley"s three step model (1973: asking british school children to describe people they knew, three stages of development for describing others, (1). External characteristics (up to ages 6-8: (2). Internal characteristics (beginning ages 7-8: personality traits, (3). Barenboim (1981: asked children to describe three people they knew, between ages 6 and 16, external (behaviourally) basically gone by age 12. Internal (psychological constructs) increasing at 8, increasing until 14: qualifiers starts by 10, second most common way of describing by 16. Understanding others" emotions: critical to development of positive social relations, how can we deduce others" emotion, theory of mind, body/facial signals, empathy, gradual developmental course.
