PSYC340 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Cognition, Joint Attention, Intentionality

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Dyadic engagement is the sharing of behaviour and emotions and it is the evidence for early understanding of social contingences. Dyadic engagement is characterized by mutual responsiveness on the behavioural level and emotional level (turn-taking, mutual gazing). The infant must be able to understand other person as goal directed before they can engage with them in activites that are triadic. Triadic means an activity involving the child, the adult and an outside entity toward which they both direct their actions (cid:894)gi(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d taki(cid:374)g o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts(cid:895). Duri(cid:374)g the pro(cid:272)ess, i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts(cid:859) gaze also (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es coordinated with that of the other person triadically towards the relevant outside objects, also known as joint attention. Self-recognition is a sense of self as a physical identify, it helps us to understand our own point of view. Self-recognition vs. tom: tom is the understanding that others are different from ourselves, driven by different goals and intentions.