[PSYC 354] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 354
• Professor: Jeremy Carpendale

Document Summary

Worldviews assumptions by which theories are based on. Communication and meaning are all tied up. But this already presupposed a self with something to say. Prisoners-in-cells ; baby as a foreigner: coordination of interaction (mead; saint augustine) Meaning is in social relations before the infant is aware of it. The ability to communicate develop as children maser gestures. Can be observed as infants learn to use gestures to communicate. Follow from a constructivist view of knowledge. Leaning the interactive potential of the world including other people what they can do. Learning to anticipate how others respond to their actions, i. e. , the meaning their actions have for others. Natural reactions conveys the basis for more complex communication. Meaning for parents before the infant is aware of response. Early communication; various functions to make requests (proto imperative), to direct attention (proto declarative), to inform, to ask questions. Two views of social understanding: beginning from the individual.