PSYC 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Temporoparietal Junction, W19 (Nuclear Artillery Shell), Parenting Styles
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Ability to navigate depends on social cognition: right tempo parietal junction (rtpj) There"s a part of your brain whose job it is to try and understand what other people are thinking/saying (rtpj) Although human adults are pretty good at understanding other minds, it takes a long time for a person to get to this level (lots of work within childhood) Big changes happen between a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old. False belief test shows this: test that sees if a child understands that people can have false beliefs. Development doesn"t end at 5, and we can test this by testing moral judgement: not until age 7 that we get what is understood as an adult response. When children think about other people, it"s not like the adult brain: when children are age 5-8, and even 8-11, their rtpj is quite different than an adult"s. What happens during development is increased localization.
