psych 333 social cognition and mind reading

What is social cognition

• Set of processes involved in perceiving, interpreting and responding to social information, including beliefs, desires emotions, and behaviour of oneself within social context

What is mind reading

• One way we understand others

• How we can read social cues

What is the theory of mind

• Body of knowledge we know about someone’s behaviors/actions or beliefs

• Assumptions that we make about the world around us

What is nativist perspective

• We were born with these thoughts about the world

What is dyadic engagement

• 2/3 months

• Early face-to-face interactions between infants and adult

• Emotional engagement and Proto conversations

What is Triadic engagement

• 9/12 months

• Giving and taking objects

• Initiate joint attention (coordinating attention between oneself and another person and an object) by pointing or directing attention to others of interest

• No plan to actually achieve something

  
  

What is collaborative engagement

• 12/15 months

• Coordination of goals

• Interaction or an infant build a tower with an adult taking on different roles

What is perspective alignment

• Conventional communication and self monitor discourse that requires imagination and adjusting to the comprehension process of the Listener

What is joint attention to mental content

• 4/5 years

• Sentential complement clauses

• Children become able to monitor other people’s attention to their reactions and expressions

• Understanding the concept of belief

What is developmental riddle

• From where is reading

• How we go from basic to complex to shared goals

What is simulation theory

• 2/5 years

• “ putting yourself in other people shoes “

• The foundation of understanding oneself

• Intention of understanding, pretend play: Sub personal (Mechanisms and authorities that rise to subjective experience) And personal (The individual subjective experience experiences)