Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Response Element, Executive Dysfunction, Functional Neuroimaging

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Study implies childs local cultural context may help accelerate development of self-regulation skills. Tom: become able to infer actors intention and imitate that goal rather than simply reproducing every action evidence suggests infants make inferences that attribute rationality to social beings. Dominance hierarchies: networks of social relations based on the ranking of group members: involves single powerful person at top and increasingly large groups of subordinates as social status decreases. These networks have powerful consequences for individuals and how they interact with another. When primates put into competitive situations (such as for food), they show more sophisticated forms of social cognition: there thinking is still more limited though. Overimitate in intentional acts of others is also found in dogs but not apes dogs and humans provide example of convergent evolution of a set of social skills. Watched adult manipulate all of them (including useless) to get out object.