PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Normative Social Influence, Lawrence Kohlberg, Psychopathy
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*in toddlerhood seeing significant development of social interaction; also beginning to see development of morals. *1st socially cognitive development that has to occur need to recognize themselves develop understanding of self ( egocentrism ). Next: develop understanding that there are others, with other perspectives. Next: understanding others have thoughts & feelings of their own & social interactions with others. Infants habituate to the familiar, attending less and less to repeated stimuli and increasing their attention when the stimulus changes: they pay most attention to faces, particularly to talking moving faces. Infant can differentiate among patterns, colors, and consonants. Recognize facial expression: seem to be hard-wired come at birth. * putting all this together infants seem to be hardwired for social interaction. Dependent on the environment to meet his or her need: infants who don"t interact emotionally with primary caregiver do not thrive. They need to form an emotional bond with primary caregiver: harlow experiment:
