PSYC21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Joint Attention, 18 Months, Language Development
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Lecture 7: me, you, us, family, and friends. Development proceeds by a series of contradictions and expansions. Threat that we do not know what the other persons motive is. The sense of self: development origins of self-concept. Babies as young as 18 weeks of age will look at their reflection in a mirror but do not realize that they are looking at themselves. Rouge test as assessment of self-recognition recognize own image by age 2 years. Insight to what other people of thinking about. It"s a shared state of mind precursor to sharing someone"s state of mind. Person a looks at person b and then point to an object. More pro-social in their lives the more that children initiate joint attention. Infants at 3 months discriminate between dyadic and joint attention interactions. Developing knowledge about others: early understanding of intentions and norms. Age 1: understand that ppls actions are intentional and goal directed.
