PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Breastfeeding, Psychoanalytic Theory, John Bowlby
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Social cog: how individuals reason about the social world. Views cog task to understand how we process, make decisions, and include social world. Helps us evaluate our rel"t w/ other people. Content: shit from physical and material aspect to more psycho"l descripions of self, others, and rel"t. When young, talks about categories in which they belong in and very literal, objecive, and concrete. Things that are easy for child to deal w/ in terms of cogniive. As get older, becomes more internal, abstract concepts. Took piaget and did cog tasks (conservaion) and tried to apply in real world. Inconsistent indings b/c: it"s diicult to deine paricular shit in quality of social reasoning. These cog test has a clear obj shit. Don"t have this in evaluaing social sits: research oten descripive and doesn"t address how children progress from stage to stage. Pro"v us opportunity to assess the concrete changes that happen over ime.
