PSYC 100 Chapter 15: Week 15

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Tyson Baker

Document Summary

Comparative perspective: a comparative perspective focuses on non-human animals to better understand the evolution of behaviour and mental processes. Before you can recognize distinct others", you need to recognize yourself as an individual, separate from others. Children"s sense of self emerges in the early years and continues to develop as they become cognitively and emotionally more sophisticated. This emerging sense of self is a necessary precursor to theory of mind, which, in turn, is a precursor to moral development. To test the relationship between the development of executive functioning and the development of. Theory of mind, you could compare the development of these skills in different cultures to see if they always appear at the same time or in the same sequence. A cross-cultural study comparing chinese and american children suggests that executive function and theory of mind develop independently.