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Lecture 8: Social Cognition and Moral Development Flashcards

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social cognition

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thinking about perceptions, thoughts, emotions, motives and behaviors of oneself, other people, groups, and even entire social systems

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false belief task

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investigates the beliefs of a person and how they influence their behavior. used to measure theory of mind in children

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theory of mind (TOM)

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understanding that people have feelings, beliefs and intentions, and that this influences behavior

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shared/joint attention

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at around 9 months old, babies develop shared attention, where they can look the same object at the same time as the caregiver

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understanding of intentions

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in the first month after birth, babies understand that other people have intentions, set goals, and want to achieve them

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pretending

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between ages 1 and 2, children show the difference between pretending and reality

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imitation

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in the first year of life when they understand and imitate the actions of others

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emotional understanding

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in the second year of life, children show an understanding of other people’s emotions

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TOM nature

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having a TOM has been adaptive to natural selection. developing a TOM requires neurological and cognitive development

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mirror neurons

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needed for social cognition, through which we observe and imitate the behaviors of others. this stimulates observational learning and imitation, in children with autism, the mirror neurons are less active

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TOM nurture

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interactions with others is necessary for developing social cognitive skills such as TOM

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language experience

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deaf children who can communicate in sign language develop TOM at the same rate as hearing children

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mind-mindedness

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parents who provide a secure attachment to the child and are sensitive to their needs, together with parents who show mind mindedness, have children with better TOM skills. mind-mindedness is talking about mental states in comprehensive ways

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interaction with siblings and peers

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these children develop TOM earlier than children without siblings

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cultural diferences

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most children develop TOM skills around the same age, except cultures where there is little talk about mental states

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morality

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ability to distinguish right from wrong, and to experience such emotions as pride when we do something right and regret or shame when we do something wrong. there are 3 components of morality

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emotional component

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contains the feelings that accompany right or wrong actions and that influence moral actions and thoughts

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cognitive component

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focuses on how we think about right and wrong and how we make choices about our behavior based on social cognitive skills such as perspective taking

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behavioral component

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is about how we behave when, for example, we see a person in need

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moral reasoning

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this is the thinking process that deals with deciding whether something is right or wrong

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stages of moral development (Kohlberg)

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1 - pre-conventional morality
2 - conventional morality
3 - post-conventional morality

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pre-conventional morality

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the rules are external and not internalised. there is an authority figure who sets the rules.
- stage 1: punishment and obedience orientation
- stage 2: instrumental hedonism; a person follows the rules to satisfy personal needs

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conventional morality

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the individual has internalised moral values. they show respect for rules set by others in order to adhere to social norms. the perspective of others is important
- stage 3: good child morality; something is good if approved by others. it is mainly about reciprocity
- stage 4: authority and social order morality; something is good if it conforms to rules and helps society

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post-conventional morality

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the individual judges what is good in terms of principles of justice, this is independent of authority figure. there may be a distinction between what is morally right and against the law.
- stage 5: morality of contract, individual rights and democratic laws
- stage 6: morality of individual principles and consciousness

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main influences on moral development

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cognitive growth and social interactions with peers. includes understanding moral standards, taking perspectives, and being able to solve conflict

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moral identity

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teenagers develop moral identity, seeing themselves as moral person who is honest and cares for others

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juvenille delinqucy

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occurs when adolescents are still minors and commit criminal offence

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conduct disorder

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involves a pattern of breaking rules and violating other people’s rights

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callous-unemotional traits

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predictor of antisocial behavior. CU traits mean that adolescents experience less empathy, regret, distress and concern for others

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dodge’s social information processing model

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offers an explanation for aggressive behavior. there are 6 steps to how information is processed when someone is provoked

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encoding cues

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you start looking at cues in the situation and register them. an aggressive young person often has a hostile attribution bias and will interpret cues more quickly as hostile

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interpertation of cues

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interpreting the situation and the motives of others. aggressive young people with hostile attribution bias, will assume that the other person wants to hurt them

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clarify goals

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you formulate goals in the situation

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searching for responses

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you are going to think of different responses to the situation

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choosing a response

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from all the different responses you have thought of, choose the best one

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behavioral assessment

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carrying out the chosen reaction

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coercive family environments

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where family members seek power, and control and use negative and coercive tactics

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Positive Youth Development (PYD)

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is an approach that emphasizes the strength of young people and it highlights the 5 C’s: competence (academic), confidence, character, connection and caring

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three levels of thought, from low to high

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  • pre-conventional thinking: the person operates according to a punish or reward mentality, there is no moral reasoning
  • conventional thinking: morality revolves around the need to follow the rules of society
  • post-conventional thinking: the personal moral code transcends the rules of society
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empathy

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  • affective empathy: being sensitive to the feelings of others (i understand and feel what you feel)
  • cognitive empathy: empathising with the perspective of another person/TOM (i understand how you feel)
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instrumental helping

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12-14 months, helping with a goal oriented action

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empathetic helping

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18-24 months, responding prosocially to another person’s grief or pain

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basis of prosocial behavior

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1 - early interest in people (social motivation)
2 - development of the ability to distinguish one’s own emotions from those of others
3 - inborn biological basis for empathy and prosocial behavior

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proactive aggression (instrumental)

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aggressive behavior is shown to achieve a certain goal

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active aggression (impulsive)

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aggression in response to pain caused by another person

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direct aggression

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physical violence and shouting, peaks around 2.5 years of age

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relational aggression

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forms of aggression that seek to cause damage to a relationship, peaks in early adolescence

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two types of antisocial behavior (Moffit)

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1 - life course persistent;
- small minority of male population
- high long-term stability
- growing up in difficult families and neighborhoods

2 - adolescence limited
- the majority of adolescence show antisocial behavior which disappears after puberty
- seems to imitate the life-cycle persistent category

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