PSY311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Deeper Understanding, Prefrontal Cortex, 6 Years
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The child is socially competent from an early age: when they are born, infants can use their sensory, perceptual, and motor capacities to respond to social signals and communicate their needs. These social-emotional skills provide a foundation for continued social development. The child is embedded in levels of social complexity: a child has dyadic interactions with another person a parent, a peer, a sibling, or a stranger. These networks influence children indirectly: the highest level is where children are embedded in a society or culture with its traditions, values, beliefs, and social institutions. Children"s interactions with other people are reciprocal and transactional: from infancy onward, children influence the behaviour of other people around them and are influenced by the reactions of these other people in return. Social behaviour has multiple interacting causes: biological factors genetics, brain organization, and hormone levels.
