EDHD 411- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Education, Human Development
• Course: EDHD 411
• Professor: Lucas Butler

Document Summary

Ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a theor(cid:455) of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d allo(cid:449)s tour o reaso(cid:374) a(cid:271)out so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior: someone had something in his head (a belif) that cuased him to do what he did. A beautiful story children begin reasonsong about agents; desires, goals, and actions they then gradually develop a represtnational theory of mind between 3 and 4. Belief/desire reasoning look at slide: desires motivate actions but beliefs frame them. The sally-anne task failure at 3 years, success at 4: developmental pattern is very robust. Rules out many but not all of the critues. Early theory of mind little kids like to help people. May develop much earlier than we thought: preschool results are artifacts, standard tasks too difficult to understand or too hard to response. Evidence in favor of complete continuity: but no one study decides the issue, research is ongoing, with lots of debate. 75% correspondence with that person"s baby"s attachment good predictor of hour.