Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Primitive Reflexes, Social Cognition, Social Change
15 Apr 2020
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Social cognition: how children come to understand their multifaceted social world. Self recognition: identification of the self as a physically unique being. Scale errors: attempting to do things that their body size makes impossible. Independent culture: good mirror recognition, poor compliance, nsa, cameroon, collectivist culture, poor mirror recognition, excellent compliance. Social development: pass mirror task, sustained mutual peer imitation, sense of ownership. The selves: categorical self: 18-30 months, perceptual traits (ex. Tall, girl: self judgements, competencies, remembered self: 2-3 years, storytelling, narratives, views self as unique, enduring self: 3-5 years, start being able to imagine what the future might hold. Individualistic vs. collectivist cultures: miller, fung et al, 12 middle ses families, 6 irish americans in chicago, 6 chinese families in taiwan, extensive videotapes of adult conversations with 2. 5 year olds. Theory of mind: coherent understanding of their own and other"s rich mental lives, perspective taking: the capacity to imagine what others may be thinking and feeling and to.
