Social Cognition Flashcards
What is social learning?
Aquiring information from others
Sometimes called observational learning
Humans are unique in that we can pass on information from one genration to the next
What is cultural transmission of knowledge
We can build on previously discovered information
What is local/stimulus enhancement?
Noticing an activity at a location, moving to that location, and through trial and error, discovering a new behaviour
What is mimicry?
repeating an exact behaviour without any actual understanding of the goal of the behaviour
What is goal emulation?
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
What is imitative learning?
Reproducing an exact behaviour to acheive the same goal
What is teaching?
Competent adult and peer modifies behaviour to demonstate a particular skill
What is social cognitive theory?
Developed by Albert Banduara
emphasizes observational learning
To engage in observational learning children need
Attention
retention
production
motivation
What is mirror neurons?
Neurons that are activated both when we perform an action and see another person perform the same action
What is self efficancy?
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
Language development: 3 months
Infants are capable of discriminating between phonemes of all world languages
by 9 months this ability narrows
Spoken language: 1-5 months
Reflexive communication
Their vocalizations consists of crying, cooing, and laughing
Spoken language: 6-18 months
Babbaling
Repetatove consonant sounds
continues even after child has said theor first words
Spoken language: 10-13 months
first words
typically resembles words they use in their babbaling
or simple words tehy see in their environment
Spoken language: 18-24 months
fats mapping-m process by which children map a world onto an underlying concept after only one exposure
Spoken language: 24 months
Combining words to make senstences
Spoken language: 3 years
Improve in forming sentences and using grammar
over regularizations occur
what are the two types of self?
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
What is gender identity formation?
Process of incorperating the roles and values of ones gender
What is gender constancy?
Understanding that gender remains the same despite changes in physical appearance
What is the three step sequence in development of gender constancy?
-Gender identity (2.5 years)
-gender stability (4-5)
Gender constancy (6-7)
What is a gender scheme?
A network that contains information about the different genders
Jane elliots classroom experiment
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
