Social Cognition

Question 1

What is social learning?

Answer 1

Aquiring information from others
Sometimes called observational learning
Humans are unique in that we can pass on information from one genration to the next

Question 2

What is cultural transmission of knowledge

Answer 2

We can build on previously discovered information

Question 3

What is local/stimulus enhancement?

Answer 3

Noticing an activity at a location, moving to that location, and through trial and error, discovering a new behaviour

Question 4

What is mimicry?

Answer 4

repeating an exact behaviour without any actual understanding of the goal of the behaviour

Question 5

What is goal emulation?

Answer 5

Observe another performing a task with an item to acheive a goal. Attempt to use the same item to acheive the same goal, but item used in a different manner

Question 6

What is imitative learning?

Answer 6

Reproducing an exact behaviour to acheive the same goal

Question 7

What is teaching?

Answer 7

Competent adult and peer modifies behaviour to demonstate a particular skill

Question 8

What is social cognitive theory?

Answer 8

Developed by Albert Banduara
emphasizes observational learning
To engage in observational learning children need
Attention
retention
production
motivation

Question 9

What is mirror neurons?

Answer 9

Neurons that are activated both when we perform an action and see another person perform the same action

Question 10

What is self efficancy?

Answer 10

Develops through experience
How well you do in regards to others
How people react to things you do
If you love something, you will have more self efficancy in it

Question 11

Language development: 3 months

Answer 11

Infants are capable of discriminating between phonemes of all world languages
by 9 months this ability narrows

Question 12

Spoken language: 1-5 months

Answer 12

Reflexive communication
Their vocalizations consists of crying, cooing, and laughing

Question 13

Spoken language: 6-18 months

Answer 13

Babbaling
Repetatove consonant sounds
continues even after child has said theor first words

Question 14

Spoken language: 10-13 months

Answer 14

first words
typically resembles words they use in their babbaling
or simple words tehy see in their environment

Question 15

Spoken language: 18-24 months

Answer 15

fats mapping-m process by which children map a world onto an underlying concept after only one exposure

Question 16

Spoken language: 24 months

Answer 16

Combining words to make senstences

Question 17

Spoken language: 3 years

Answer 17

Improve in forming sentences and using grammar
over regularizations occur

Question 18

what are the two types of self?

Answer 18

The I self: IMplicit sense of self world differentiation
-emerges around 3 months
The me self: Concious awareness of oneself as distinct from others
-emerges around 18 months

Question 19

What is gender identity formation?

Answer 19

Process of incorperating the roles and values of ones gender

Question 20

What is gender constancy?

Answer 20

Understanding that gender remains the same despite changes in physical appearance

Question 21

What is the three step sequence in development of gender constancy?

Answer 21

-Gender identity (2.5 years)
-gender stability (4-5)
Gender constancy (6-7)

Question 22

What is a gender scheme?

Answer 22

A network that contains information about the different genders

Question 23

Jane elliots classroom experiment

Answer 23

Blue eyes vs brown eyes
Told the students that blue eyed students are superior to see how they would react to this
the personalitys of the kids deemed superiro changed drastically