FSW 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The First Three Years, Imitative Learning, Mirror Neuron
20 Mar 2019
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Chapter 8: psychosocial development during the first three years. Personality: relatively consistent blend of emotions, temperament, thought, and behavior that makes each person unique : psychosocial development: combination of personality development with social relationships. Subjective reactions to experience which are associated with the physiological and behavioral changes. Develop during infancy and are basic elements of personality. Culture influences the way people: feel about a situation, show their emotions. Altruistic behavior: activity that intends to assist another person with no expectation for reward: comes naturally to toddlers, rewarding the behavior tends to undermine it. Empathy: ability to put oneself in another person"s place and feel what the other person feel"s. Social evaluation: valuing someone based on how that person treats others. Mirror neurons: neurons that fire when a person does something or observes someone else doing the same thing: have been linked to imitative learning and to the emergence of, self-awareness, language, abstract reasoning.
