PSY2004 W10 Reading Flashcards
Tomasello, M. (2019) Becoming Human
What do children of 6-7 years are believed to have?
Reason
Cognitively mostly reasonable; they can be hold accountable
What is Neo-Vygotskian?
in placing human socio-cultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory.
What was the focus of the book?
Focus of paper on the evolution of human cooperation and how it enables species- unique pro cesses of cultural coordination and transmission
How does it differ to Vygotisky’s focus?
Vygotsky focsd on transmisive dimension of culture but here they focus on coordinative dimension of culture how humans including children collaborate and communicate in the moment as they engage with others in socioculutral activites.
What does human cognition depend on?
Uniquely human cognitive and social ontogeny depends crucially on transactions between the individual and a rich cultural ecology, which are both necessary for normal human development and also responsible for many cultural and individual variations.
What are the two steps for adapting to cooperation?
1-Comprised adaptations enabling early human individuals to cooperate with one another dyadically in obligate collaborative foraging (with partner choice); these are the skills and motivations of joint intentionality.
2-Comprised adaptations enabling modern human individuals to cooperate with one another in the larger collaborative enterprise known as culture; these are the skills and motivations of collective intentionality.
These two steps constitute the evolutionary foundations of uniquely human cognitive and social ontogeny.
Do apes have complx skills ?
They possess complex skills of cognition and social cognition for understanding, predicting, and manipulating their physical and social worlds. What they do not possess is humanlike skills of shared intentionality, such as the ability to participate in the thinking of others through joint attention, conventional communication, and pedagogy. Chimpanzees and bonobos— and thus the LCA— are and were very clever, but mainly or only as individuals.
What is widely accepted among students of human evolution?
that our pattern of a relatively slow ontogeny, including slow brain growth, is at least partly an adaptation to humans’ cultural way of life, in which developing children have much to learn and many skills to develop before they can become competent members of their cultural group.
