PSY312H5 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 social development.docx
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Moral development (textbook does not go into detail about this) Understanding your position in the world (self), and another aspect, understanding yourself in regards to other people (involves moral development. Some children do not form a social development: disorder known as reactive attachment disorder (no social development; do not attach to other people) Critical period for this disorder, if not resolved, leads to adulthood as antisocial personality disorder. Do bad things because they don"t develop a sense of how others feel (they know how they feel but they don"t care) Develop swallow sense of sympathy, but no empathy. Sense of self in regards to environment and relationship to other people. Children understand perspective and very quickly understand other people. 5 or 6 when kids understand other people"s feelings. Piaget was the first to do research on this. Complete empathy for other people, highest level -maslow"s hierarchy of needs; not many of us have this.
