SPA 4004 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity, Intentionality, Joint Attention

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
• Course: SPA 4004
• Professor: Sharon Difino

Document Summary

Underpinnings of social competence and language: social competence arises from, secure attachment. Instrumental social learning: experience sharing relationships, attachment, affective tie of infants to their parents, secure attachment = parents who are highly attuned and responsive. Instrumental social actions: those that are done to achieve a specific objective in a social setting, examples, requesting, seeking assistance, pointing, tied to external reinforcements, experience sharing. Involves the desire and skills to be a good reciprocal playmate: to value others" point of view, develop friendship, conduct emotion based interactions. Intersubjectivity: drives intentionality, reflects the child"s experience of emotions, theory of mind, appreciation of intersubjectivity, contributes to children"s ability to predict behaviors. Influenced by endogenous factors: primary tom: 0 6 months, secondary tom: 6 18 months, joint attention. Integration of information about self-experience of a subject or event with information about how others experience the same thing: types of joint attention, responding to joint attention.