CBMS107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, Sequela
5 Sep 2018
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Strengths: landmark theory - not just miniature adults - fascinating aspects of pre-logical thinking, learning as an active process - influences on education, process cross domains - eg. conservation. Critiques: stages to rigid/prescriptive, under-estimated children(cid:1685)s abilities. Universality: western bias, many don(cid:1685)t reach higher levels, context not sufficiently considered. Learning - sociocultural - (cid:1688)see babies film(cid:1689: learning collaborative - social contexts, social - role of siblings, peers. Information processing approach: increased capacity of neural systems, processing of information, effortful to automatic (eg. driving, more sophisticated memory strategies. Broccoli experiment: people think differently from me: generally under 14 months babies think their desires are the other people desires, at the age of 2 they start to realise that other people have their own thoughts. Influences on developing a theory of mind: nature & nurture: brain maturation - age threshold, relations with language development, pretend play.
