PSYC 354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Biological Motion, Joint Attention, Intentionality
9 Feb 2020
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Chapter 5: the development of communication and social understanding in. Cradle of thought: skills developed in the first year are crucial to the development of thinking: skills that reflect a social understanding. Joint attention: the ability to follow a caregiver"s gaze to determine what they are focusing on. Indicates some understanding of the perspective of others. Diadic triadic interactions first infants focus on other things to orient themselves in their environment: caregivers respond to the infant"s signals and they learn from this, learning occurs based on routines and interactions. Chapter 6: theories of communication and social understanding in infancy. The innate module account: children are born with an abstract computational system that guides their interpretation, this approach assumes that the infants used her own experience to understand others. Shared intentionality: collaborative actions where participants share psychological states: this is a human adaption, caused by underlying psychological processes.
