PSYC 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Intentionality, Social Cognition, Parenting Styles
14 Apr 2017
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It wasn"t until age 14 or so that over 70% passed. One possibility is due to opacity of mind", where these children are not taught to think about what other people are thinking. Aka, everything should be read at surface value, such as intentions, wants, and desires: culture is mediated through social interaction and the specific experiences the child will have, so to understand cultural differences, we must understand familial differences. A sibling effect was found, especially for children with two or more older siblings. But, if they are just rejected, they may miss out on the important experiences that develop social understanding (lecture) Gender differences: effect for understanding emotions, like in false belief understanding, the way parents talk to daughters consists of greater variety of emotional terms, thus, the girls use more emotion words than do boys at time 2. In mandarin and cantonese, the same relatively simple grammatical structure is used to talk about both beliefs and desires.
