01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Joint Attention, Intersubjectivity, 18 Months

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: Margaret Ingate

Document Summary

Introduction: concepts: general ideas or understandings that can be used to group together objects, events, qualities, or abstractions that are similar in some way. Allow us to generalize from prior experience. Tell us how to react emotionally to new experiences: two groups of fundamental concepts. Used to categorize the kinds of things that exist in the world: people, living things, inanimate objects. Dimensions used to represent our experiences: space (where it occurred), time (when it occurred), causality (why it occurred) and number (how many times it occurred: focuses on the first 5 years. Understanding who or what: dividing objects into categories. Category hierarchy: categories that are related by set-subset relations, such as animal/dog/poodle. Infants and cats- recognize different types are still a cat. Perceptual categorization: the grouping together of objects with similar appearances. Casual understanding and categorization: understanding cause-effect relations helps children learn and, knowledge of other people and oneself remember new categories.