(notes unfinished) Lecture 6 - Social Cognition Flashcards
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Siegler, R., Saffran, J., DeLoache, J., Gershoff, E. T. & Eisenberg, N. (2017). How Children Develop. Chapter 7 (Understanding Who or What section).
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This lecture builds on the previous lecture, introducing students to the many ways in which children become aware of the actions and minds of other people. In doing so, it links the previous weeks’ lectures on action-perception links and paradigms used to measure attention and perception.
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When do children understand that other people have desires, intentions and beliefs?
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What is naive psychology?
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- Infants find people interesting, pay careful attention to them, and learn an impressive amount about them in the first year.
- In the first half of the second year, toddlers begin to show a grasp of several ideas that are crucial for psychological understanding.
> Intention
> Joint attention
> Intersubjectivity
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How can we test basic action understanding in infants?
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slides 5-8
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By 14 months, infants imitate intentional, but not accidental actions.
What cues might they use?
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- Facial cues (shocked face)
- Tone of voice (high pitched)
- Words used (‘oops’)
Infants define accidental and intentional actions using these cues.
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Describe imitation tasks
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slide 10
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Describe the progression of Social Cognitive Knowledge in infants.
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A theory of mind is a well-organized understanding of how the mind works and how it influences behavior.
- Two-year-olds: Understand the connection between other people’s desires and their specific actions, but show little understanding that beliefs are also influential
- Three-year-olds: Understand that desires and beliefs affect behavior, but have difficulty with false-belief problems
- Five-year-olds: Find false-belief problems very easy
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Describe the Self—Other Desire Distinction in infants.
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slide 12
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How do we measure false beliefs in children?
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- sally-anne task
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Why might children only develop the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts and beliefs than they do? (sally-anne)
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see slide 16-17
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Watch the lecture onwards from 28 mins in. (just not sure how to link the notes together)
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