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Unit 5: Development in Early Childhood (2-6 years) Flashcards

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1
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How much height and weight do children between the ages of 2 - 6 gain in total?

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30 cm
8kg

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Muscle maturation occurs, as fat is turned into muscles. This leads to the average body mass index (BMI) being at its ______ between 5-6 years.

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lowest

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How tall and heavy is the average 6 year old?

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> 110 cm
12-23 kg

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How does the center of gravity shift, why and which effect does that have?

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shifts from chest to abdomen
faster growing legs (and arms) -> 60% height increase by puberty
provides more stability and development of more complex movements

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Which factors can influence growth and maturation?

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genetic inheritance
exercise and daily physical activity
Social class
Physical deficiencies/ illnesses
Trauma and physical/ psychological abuse
Nutrition

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What does a very high level of training cause?

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less growth

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When do most eating disorders begin?

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during physical development

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What does obesity in early puberty mainly cause?

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delays in cognitive development

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Where do the hemispheres mainly get their information from/ exert their influence on?

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contralateral parts

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Which structure allows for a transfer of information between the hemispheres and why is the exchange of information crucial?

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corpus callosum
crucial for everyday functioning (e.g. coordinated movements)

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When does the process of myelinisation occur at a particularly high rate and which effect does this have?

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3-6
increased efficiency of corpus callosum

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lateralization

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each hemisphere is specialized for certain functions

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Is lateralization true for all processes?

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no
e.g. speech comprehension

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Does lateralization depend on handedness?

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yes

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handedness

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preference of using one hand or side of the body over the other

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How many adults are righthanded, and what does this mean when talking about lateralization?

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90%
dominant left half of brain

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Even though there are signs of lateralization from birth, when is handedness well established?

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2-3 years

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Should you “lateralize” your child by the age of 5 if it does not happen spontaneously?

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yes

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double lateralization hypothesis

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innate laterality (genetic inheritance, spontaneous)
learned laterality (use of objects)

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How can preoperational children think compared to sensorimotor beings?

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in symbols (not just via senses)

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What is symbolic function?

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ability to make one thing represent another

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Which are examples of manifestations of mental representations appearing during the preoperational stage?

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drawing
symbolic play
language (describing objects)

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cataloguing/ categorization and class logic

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children have an enormous capacity for learning new words and logical connections between them

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animism

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belief that inanimate objects are alive
non-human objects have human characteristics

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Why are children in the preoperational stage egocentric?

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children understand the world from own perspective and have difficulties to understand the POV of others

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How did Piaget and Inhelder study egocentrism in children?

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Three mountains study

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Do children in the preoperational stage still act intuitively, despite their ability to describe things not immediately present?

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yes

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How do children interpret the environment? (e.g. DeVries & “Maynard” experiment)

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based on its appearance

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conservation

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recognition that properties of an object are not altered if appearance is altered in a superficial way

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Do children in the preoperational stage understand conservation?

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no
Flavell: experiment with water containers
-> children below 6-7 think taller container contains more liquid

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Which concepts do children in the preoperational stage lack, to understand conservation (according to Piaget)?

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Decentration: ability to concentrate on more than one aspect of a problem at a time
Reversibility: ability to mentally reverse actions

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32
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Which other properties of objects prove that children younger than 6-7 don’t understand conservation (Flavell)?

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Mass (longer = more perceived mass)
Number (same amount of objects wider spaced is perceived as more objects being there)

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33
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Which are the 5 behaviors Piaget identified as vehicles of representation?

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delayed imitation
mental imagery
language
drawing
play

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Signifier

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designates graphic or phonetic representation

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Signified

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meaning of a word
semantic aspect

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What’s the difference between Signals, Symbols and Signs?

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Signal: signifier directly linked to signified (e.g. smoke and ifre)
Symbol: greater distance between signifier and signified (e.g. symbol of a house and house)
Sign: arbitrary, no relation (e.g. mathematical signs)

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When does the ability to use differentiated signifiers begin to develop?

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1.5 years

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Delayed imitation

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imitation in absence of model
reveals existence of internal models

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Symbolic play

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situations produced in symbolic way
-> giving meaning to elements

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Mental imagery

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internalized imitation
-> representation of situations

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Language

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use of arbitrary signs

42
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What are some advantages of play?

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physical development
improved planning and self-control (e.g. setting rules)
emotional regulation and social skills

43
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Rough-and-tumble play

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one of the most common forms of active play
mimcs aggression (e.g. wrestling, chasing or hitting) without intention to harm
more common in boys

44
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peers

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children of similar age but not from the same family

45
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What’s a difference between child-parent and child-child interactions?

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vertical relationship (child parent)
horizontal relationship (child chil)
-> more difficult to manage (require compromise)

46
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How does play develop from infancy to childhood?

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6 months old: little attention to peers
2 years old: parallel play
2-5: play with increasing cooperation

47
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How did Mildred Parten categorize play?

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Unoccupied play (no activity)
Onlooker play (watches others)
Solitary play
Parallel play
Associative play (interact in same activity)
Cooperative play (interact in coordinated way, e.g. taking turns)

48
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Can we take the progression through Parten’s play behaviors as an index of social and cognitive abilities (ages 2-5)?

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no, younger and older children engage in various forms of play

49
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Functional play

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first 2 years
simple, physical activities
“sensorimotor play” (piaget)

50
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Symbolic play

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2-6 years
child symbolically represents something, which is absent in immediate setting

51
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Make-believe (sociodramatic) play

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2-6 years
acting out various roles and plots
emerges after simpler forms of symbolic play

52
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Why is sociodramatic play important?

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allows exploration of social roles
learning how to explain and negotiate
practice emotional regulation

53
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Constructive play

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3-6 years
creating or building objects (or representations of objects)

54
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Games with rules

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6+ years
structured games with publicly accepted rules

55
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What is drawing?

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form of imitation of reality
-> shapes mental representations

56
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Are children’s drawings simple copies of reality?

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no, they also involve internal images and information

57
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Which other activities/ skills is drawing connected with?

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Play
Language

58
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Which components are involved in drawing?

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motor
cognitive (understanding of reality)
affective (represents interests, worries and desires)

59
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What are children able to do at 2 years of age (context: language)?

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use basic grammar
place words into categories

60
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naming insight

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18-24 months
children realize that names apply to everything

61
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fast-mapping

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process of quickly acquiring a word after hearing it
-> immediately place it into a category
often occurs when child and speaker are jointly attending to object mentioned

62
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overextension

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when children use one word for a wide variety of objects

63
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underextension

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tendency to use general term to smaller range of objects

64
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overlap error

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mixture of overextension and underextension

65
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How much does the child’s vocabulary expand by 3 years?

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1000 - 5000 words
-> language progresses with conjunctions
sentences up to 8 words
-> many why questions

66
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How do vocabulary and sentence length change by 4 years?

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10.000 words
20 word sentences

67
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How does grammar progress by the 4th year?

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includes dependent clauses and tags at sentence end (e.g. won’t you)

68
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How do vocabulary and sentence length change by 6 years?

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30.000 words
unlimited sentences

69
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How does grammar change by the 6th year?

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passive voice
subjunctive
more complex questions

70
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What are the component processes of the memory system?

A

encoding
storage
retrieval

71
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How does the preferential looking method work and what does familiarity imply?

A

infants spend less time looking at familiar stimuli compared to unfamiliar stimuli
shows degree of memory

72
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What is a common task employing the preferential looking method and how does it work?

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Visual paired comparison task (VPC)
children shown stimulus
after delay they are shown 2 stimuli (1 unfamiliar, 1 familiar from before)
time spent looking at familiar compared to unfamiliar stimulus used as index of recognition memory

73
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What has the VPC found out so far?

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children between 3-6 recognize visual stimuli

74
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Morgan and Hayne used the VPC to study encoding. What did they find out about the coding abilities of 1 year old’s compared to 4 year old’s?

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1: took 10 sec to remember stimulus; forget about stimulus after 1 week
4: took 5 to remember stimulus; need 10 sec to encode stimulus to recognize it after 1 week
-> 1 year old’s need more time to encode stimuli

75
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What did Morgan and Hayne discover when looking at our abilities of retrieval and encoding? (VPC of children between 1-4)

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retrieval depends on the time we spend encoding the information
encoding develops significantly between 1 and 4 years

76
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Are memory processes only possible from 1 year onward?

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no
6 months: recognition after 20 sec delay
9 months: recognition after 2-3 minute delay
Bowlby: infants can recognize caregiver at 2 months of age

77
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infantile amnesia

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not having memories younger than 3.5 years of age

78
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What could explain infantile amnesia?

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role of language
still very rudimentary until 3
-> may affect how memories are encoded

79
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Why is a mature understanding of emotions in others important for us?

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key role in understanding own internal states
-> allows us to behave competently in social interactions

80
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When do basic emotions become visible?

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birth: interest, distress, disgust, contentment
2 months: social smiles
2-7 months: anger, sadness, joy, surprise and fear

81
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When do complex emotions like shame or guilt develop?

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18-24 months

82
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When can children recognize the emotions of others?

A

7-10 months

83
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social referencing

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ability to use other’s emotional expressions as guide for how to behave

84
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Why is the ability to display and understand emotions important for social development?

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allows child to understand how they should feel

85
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What is understanding how external expressions are related with inner feelings important for?

A

developing a theory of mind

86
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First definition of theory of mind (ToM)

A

ability to predict what another person believes in a situation, and based on that, predict how they might behave

87
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What is a ToM important for?

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managing social interaction
understanding intentions
empathise

88
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Which cognitive abilities does the theory of mind depend on?

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ability to understand what another person wants (desire)
ability to understand what another person believes (belief)

89
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Baron-Cohen suggested, that the ToM develops in two phases. Which ones?

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8 months: gaze following (awareness that sb else is looking at something of interest)
12 months: proto-declarative pointing (to confirm that they know what another person is looking at)

90
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At 2 years children develop a private and public self. What are they?

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private self: how we feel
public self: how we show how we feel to others

91
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empathy

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reading feelings by physical expressions

92
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When do children understand that internal emotions correspond with desires (which then again motivate the behavior of others)?

A

2 years

93
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belief-desire reasoning

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ability to empathize and predict how others might act based on beliefs and desires
-> may not act if desires go against beliefs
developed at 3 years of age

94
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principle of seeing leads to knowing

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understanding that what a person knows about a situation depends on what that person sees
developed at 3-4 years

95
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meta-representation

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used in pretended play
learning to separate what is true from what someone is pretending to do
developed at 3-4 years

96
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What’s the most used task to assess a child’s understanding of first-order false beliefs?

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Sally-Anne task

97
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Belief question

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designed to test ability to understand another person’s belief

98
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reality question

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tests understanding of reality

99
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memory question

A

tests ability to recall events

100
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Until which age can subjects not answer the belief question? (but are capable of answering the others)

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until 4 years they can’t answer belief questions

101
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When do children develop an understanding of second-order states and what does that mean?

A

6
understand that others say and do thing to evoke a response in others

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