FMST 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Child Discipline, Mental Model, Social Perception
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Chapter 8: social and personality development in early childhood: theories of social and personality development, psychoanalytic perspectives (optional reading not on the exams, social-cognitive perspectives, define the viewpoint held by social-cognitive theories. Social-cognitive theories theoretical perspective that asserts social and personality development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain: person perception. 2. race (a) define person perception ability to classify others according to categories such as age, gender, (b) identify two reasons why preschoolers" observational and classification skills limit their person perception skills. Young children"s judgments about others are inconsistent because they tend to base them on their most recent interactions with those individuals. Also categorize others based on observable characteristics: age, gender, race (cross-race effect) (c) define the cross-race effect and age when it is established. Cross-race effect individuals more likely to remember faces of people of own race rather than different race; established by age 5: understanding rule categories.
