Lectures 1-3 Flashcards

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1
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What did Franz (1963) say about babies?

What was his experiment?

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Babies have a preference for looking at humans faces.

He used the “looking chamber” to record babies eye movements to different stimuli.

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2
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What is motherese?

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A high pitched sing song style of speech and is used in all different cultures.

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What did DeCasper and Fifer (1980) find and what was their experiment?

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Newborns recognise their mothers voices. They tested this using a dummy which measured the baby’s sucking pattern on a dummy. The babies learnt to suck in a certain speed to get the mothers voice to play.

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Eimas (1972) found what about babies?

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They recognise different speech sounds that didn’t occur in their native language. However as they grow older they lose this ability.

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What is interaction synchrony?

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Infant mirrors the facial expressions and body movements of their social partner.

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What is shared intentionality?

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Collaborative interactions in which participants share psychological states with one another (for example problem solving activities).

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What is the kewpie doll effect (Bolby, 1958, 1969)?

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Young infants have physical characteristics that adults find attractive.

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8
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What is stranger anxiety?
( 3 things )

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  • Fear of unfamiliar people
  • Strong between 5-7 months
  • Lasts normally until 14 months
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What is separation anxiety?

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  • Fear of being left by primary care giver
  • emerges at 6 months increasing until 15 months, then gradually fades
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What is social referencing?

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An infants tendency to look to trusted adults for emotional cues in interpreting an ambiguous event.

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Ainsworth (1978) identified 3 patterns of attachment

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  • Secure
  • Resistant
  • Avoidant
  • (Later added disorganised/disoriented)
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What is insecure avoidant attachment?

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Not too bothered by stranger and mother’s departure, reluctant to cling and lack of delight when mother returns.

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What is securely attached?

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Crying when mother leaves, searches for her and is delighted when returns.

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What is insecure attachment?

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Cling to mothers but don’t show distress of departure, reuniting may bring joy and a lot of crying.

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Benefits of secure attachment in the long term?

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Basic trust, more intelligent, better development and optimism.

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16
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Nature vs nurture

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Nature - genetics
Nurture - environmental influences

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17
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What is a neurodevelopment disorder/condition?

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Genetic or environmental factors influence the development of the brain and/or nervous system.

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18
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Genotype?
Phenotype?

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The genetic makeup of a person

Observable characteristics (hair colour)

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19
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What is a teratogen?

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Environmental hazards with negative effects on prenatal development.

Maternal stress can be a teratogen
Smoking
Industrial chemicals
Heavy metals
Maternal age

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20
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What percentage weight is the brain at birth in comparison to its adult weight.

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25%

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21
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What is myelination?

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Process of costing the axon with fatty substance called myelin

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22
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Size constancy is assumed to be…

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Innate

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23
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Experiment to test depth perception for babies is…

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Visual cliff

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24
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By what age do infants have a visual recognition memory?

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3 months

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25
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What are the three methods for assessing infant memory?

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Habituation/dishabituation
Conjugate-reinforcement
Deferred imitation

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What did they find from the mobile conjugate reinforcement procedure?

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Infants appear to remember the specific details of the original stimulus.

For example, babies are more likely to kick to a similar mobile than a dissimilar one to the one they remember.

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27
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What was Bauer et al (2000) experiment on deferred imitation?

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  1. Placed bar across two posts
  2. Hung a plate from the bar
  3. Struck the plate with a mallet

Babies remembered this up to 12 months later.

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28
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What is piagets 3 stage theory?

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Cognitive development
Intelligence
Schemata

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Three types of schemata recognition

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Behavioural or sensorimotor- organised behaviour pattern.

Symbolic - mental symbols.

Operational - mental activities that the child performs on his or her objects of thought.

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30
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Three ways learning occurs using schemata

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Organisation - combining schemata into complex structures

Assimilation - interpreting new experiences by incorporating them into existing schemata

Accommodation- modifying existing schemata to explain new experiences

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31
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4 key facts of piagets theory of development

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  1. Four stages of cognitive development
  2. Stages occur in an invariant sequence
  3. Ages associated with stages are approximate
  4. Development is potentially influenced by environment
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32
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What age is object Permanence mastered?

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18 months

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33
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What is differed imitation?

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Imitating an action a long time after it was observed.

34
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When is the pre-operational stage?

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2-7 years

35
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When is the sensorimotor stage?

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0-24 months

36
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Key aspects of the pre-operational stage

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The symbolic function - mental symbols that represent the world

Animism - lifelike qualities to inanimate objects

Transductive reasoning - wrongly assuming contiguous events are related

Egocentrism- viewing world from their perspective

Failure to conserve quantity - children are mislead by superficial changes in appearance when judging quantity

37
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What experiment can be used to test egocentrism?

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The three mountain problem

38
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How to test failure to conserve?

And why do children fail this?

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Glasses of water, length of a line and area.

They fail as they exhibit centration - a tendency to focus on a single attribute of an object.

39
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When is the concrete operational stage?

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7-11

40
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Features of the concrete operational stage?

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Seriation - children can now organise a set of objects

Transitivity - they can draw inferences based on relations among elements

Linguistic humour - children enjoy jokes based on double meaning of words

Concrete thinking - they can think of real or easily imaginable operations but not abstract ideas

41
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When is the formal operational stage?

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12+

42
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What is included in the formal operational stage?

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Abstract - solving problems such as algebra

Idealistic - ideals of themselves or the world

Logical - problem solving skills such as testing ideas

43
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Evaluation of this piagets theory

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Some tasks too difficult/language too complex and some children as young as 3 give non egocentric responses.

However he said…

Learning from observation is possible and can be promoted to children to revise existing schemas.

44
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What is vygotskys sociocultural theory?

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Higher mental functions grow out of the social interactions and dialogues that take place between a child and a parent, teacher or from culture.

These interactions internalise mature and effective ways of thinking and problem solving.

45
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What are vygotskys key stages to language thought development?

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  1. External speech
  2. Egocentric speech
  3. Internal speech
46
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What is the zone of proximal development?

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Range of tasks that a child cannot get accomplish without active assistance. The framework of support is called scaffolding.

47
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What does make believe play help develop?

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It helps to separate thinking from objects and develops self regulation.

48
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What are executive functions?

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Higher cognitive skills such as planning and thinking ahead.

Also children with higher EF out perform children with low EF

49
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What is cognitive inhibition?

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Ability to control distracting stimuli.

50
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3 types of attention

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Sustained
Selective
Adaptive

51
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What is epigenics?

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The study of how environmental experiences affect the expression of genes.

52
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What is the transactional model?
Chandler and sameroff (1975).

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The environment and the child tend to mutually alter each other. It explains how a child’s innate temperament interacts with the environment over the course of development to form the adult personality.

53
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What is alberts banduras 3 way transactional model?

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Personal
Environmental determinants
Behavioural determinants

54
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What is the biopsychosocial model?

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Biological risks
Psychology stresses
Social pressure

55
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Examples of biological factors?

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Hormones
Stress reactivity
Drug effects
Brain injury
Brain age
Genetics

56
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What is the developmental systems theory?

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Nature and nurture factors combining to influence development.

57
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What is the ecological systems theory?
Urie bronfenbrenner

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Explains how children develop within the context of multiple environments.

58
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Order of ecological systems from smallest to biggest.

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Microsystems
Mesosystems
Ecosystems
Macrosystems
Chronosystems

59
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What is the microsystem

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School, peers, family and neighbourhood

60
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What is the mesosystem?

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Link between home and school, friends and family and community

61
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What is the exosystem?

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Extended family, health services, media and social services

62
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What is the macro system?

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Society, politics, nationality and culture

63
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What is chronosystem

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Effects of time or historical period oh a child developments. This includes changes in address, family structure and parents employment.

64
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What is proximal processes?

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Bronfenbrenner used this term to describe the process that drives development. This includes repeat interactions with family, friends and activities

65
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What are cohort effects?

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A group of people that share similar experiences growing up as they live in a similar place and time. People in different generations will have different experiences

66
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What is the waterfall analogy?

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Development reflects the operation of multiple mechanisms and can change at multiple levels.

67
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What are the types of play?

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Locomotor play
Object play
Language play
Social okay
Pretend play

68
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What is locomotor play?

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Rhythmic stereotypes
Exercise play
Rough and tumble play

69
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What is object play?

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Mouthing objects and dropping them
Moving objects

70
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Why is pretend play important?

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Understand symbols
Innate between 18-24 months
Relation between pretending and social-emotional development

71
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What does Piaget say about pretend play?

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Play is opposite of imitation

He saw it as evidence of a immature cognitive system

72
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What does vygotsky say about pretend play?

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Play promotes cognitive development and creates the zone of proximal development.

73
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When to use a unrelated t test?

A

Looking for differences between means of two conditions

The scores are unrelated

Data fits parametric assumptions

74
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What is parallel play?

A

Children playing alongside each tiger but not interacting

75
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Which theorist saw or pretending as an example of an immature cognitive system?

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Piaget

76
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Will a 3 year old say there are crayons or bandaids in the box

A

Bandaids

77
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At what age did children pass false belief tests?

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4-5

78
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What does theory of mind mean?

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All people have beliefs and desires

The beliefs and desires of others are not necessarily the same as ours

Beliefs can be true or false

79
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What kind of parental feedback best discouraged anti-social behaviour?

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Explaining consequences of misbehaviour to others feelings

80
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What is a risk factor for aggression in children?

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Insecure attachment
Use of psychical punishment
Lack of parental monitoring