HDF 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Joint Attention, Social Cognition, Mentalization
18 Dec 2018
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Explicit mentalizing a meta-cognitive process that involves active self-monitoring and reflection. False beliefs beliefs that a person believes to be true but which, in reality, are false. Implicit mentalizing resulting from observing and interacting with others but this information is not available to conscious thought. Joint attention when two people, such as a child and adult, attend to an object or event at the same time. Social cognition the ways that young infants perceive and understand social interaction, the people with whom they interact, and the differences between others" perspectives and knowledge and the infant"s own. Specific attachments the ability to become familiar with specific people across a variety of interactions and contexts. Still-face paradigm a procedure which disrupts the normal course of interaction when an adult, typically the mother, does not respond to the social bids of the infant. Stranger anxiety when infants react negatively to unfamiliar adults.
