PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intentionality
10 Nov 2016
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Understanding others: developmental course of both cognitive and social-cognitive development. From egocentric viewpoint to general viewpoint (understand other people"s perspective: but . Did a study on 6-16 years old on descriptions. Descriptions focus on : external features (up to ages 6-8) no conservation of personality but doesn"t realize that those personality traits alter depending on situations and realizes that those in this social world are dependent. Internal features (beginning ages 7-8) uses physical features to describe people that differs from the rst step. Physical descriptions turn into examples on how to describe how horrible this boy is. 2: quali ers and inferences (beginning in teen years) children begin to make all sorts of inferences about adolescents. More spontaneous comparisons between people they see in the world and more quali ers to describes different people. 1: traits and internal features, quali ers and inferences. No descriptions and just given the age differences of the participants.
