Social Cognition And Social Development

Author : E. Tory Higgins,Diane N. Ruble,William W. Hartup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985-07-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521313708

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Social Cognition and Social Development by E. Tory Higgins,Diane N. Ruble,William W. Hartup Pdf

In psychology there has been an explosion of interest in what has come to be called social cognition. How do people categorise and conceptualise social situations, obligations and relationships? And what are the implications of their categorisations and conceptualisations for behaviour? Developmental and social psychologists are currently converging on the developmental roots of social cognitive abilities. This timely 1983 book offers a useful overview of research and theory concerning social cognition and social behaviour in children at the time of this book's publication. A full range of theoretical approaches is represented, key problems are systematically reviewed, and research programmes and perspectives of leading psychologists in the field are summarised.

Author : Jessica Sommerville,Jean Decety
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315520568

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Social Cognition by Jessica Sommerville,Jean Decety Pdf

Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cognition and social behavior across species and the life span. The volume is organized according to two central themes that address issues of continuity and change both at the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic level. First, the book addresses to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are shared across species, versus abilities and capacities that are uniquely human. Second, it covers to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are continuous across periods of development within and across the life span, versus their change with age. This volume offers a fresh perspective on social cognition and behavior, and shows the value of bringing together different disciplines to illuminate our understanding of the origins, mechanisms, functions, and development of the many capacities that have evolved to facilitate and regulate a wide variety of behaviors fine-tuned to group living.

Author : Suzanne Hala
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317775003

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The Development of Social Cognition by Suzanne Hala Pdf

The Development of Social Cognition presents a lively, up-to-date examination of both the classical issues and contemporary understanding of theory and research in social cognitive development. The initial chapters highlight one of the central, theoretical tensions in the field, which is whether the development of understanding people is fundamentally different from understanding things. Subsequent chapters are devoted to development across specific areas of social cognition from infancy through to adolescence. The text ends with a comprehensive examination of the development of moral aspects of social cognition.

Author : Elizabeth Meins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134836574

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Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition by Elizabeth Meins Pdf

Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of social and cognitive development, and as such addresses issues which are of increasing interest to developmental psychologists. In the first two chapters, Meins outlines Bowlby's attachment theory and the research which it has inspired, and develops the theme of a secure attachment relationship providing children with a sense of themselves as effective agents in their interactions with the world (self-efficacy). The next five chapters describe a longitudinal study of a sample of children whose security of attachment was assessed in infancy. Security-related differences are reported in the areas of object/person permanence, language acquisition, symbolic play, maternal tutoring and theory of mind, but no differences were found in general cognitive ability. Meins argues that the wide-ranging advantages enjoyed by the securely attached children are best explained in terms of their greater self-efficacy and social flexibility, nurtured by a particular kind of early infant-mother interaction. This book's major contribution is in its approach to explaining why securely attached children may be more self-effective and flexible in social interactions. Meins attempts to account for these differences within a Vygotskian framework, focusing on the secure dyad's greater ability to function within the zone of proximal development. She suggests that a mother's mind-mindedness (the propensity to treat one's infant as an individual with a mind) is an important factor in determining her ability to interact sensitively with her child. In the final chapter, Meins considers how the Vygotskian approach can complement and extend existing theories of attachment, and suggests some ways in which future research might address outstanding questions in this rapidly advancing field.

Author : E. Tory Higgins,Diane N. Ruble,William W. Hartup
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985-07-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521313708

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Social Cognition and Social Development by E. Tory Higgins,Diane N. Ruble,William W. Hartup Pdf

In psychology there has been an explosion of interest in what has come to be called social cognition. How do people categorise and conceptualise social situations, obligations and relationships? And what are the implications of their categorisations and conceptualisations for behaviour? Developmental and social psychologists are currently converging on the developmental roots of social cognitive abilities. This timely 1983 book offers a useful overview of research and theory concerning social cognition and social behaviour in children at the time of this book's publication. A full range of theoretical approaches is represented, key problems are systematically reviewed, and research programmes and perspectives of leading psychologists in the field are summarised.

Author : Felicisima C. Serafica
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317540175

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Social-Cognitive Development in Context by Felicisima C. Serafica Pdf

The relationship between the cognitive and social spheres of human functioning and their context has long been regarded by social and behavioural scientists as a central theoretical issue. By the early 1980s a number of empirical studies had further elucidated the nature of this relationship but no attempt had been made to present a coherent picture of the research and developments in this increasingly popular area of study. Originally published in 1982, the topics covered in this book filled the gap admirably. They present a view of the development of aspects of the self and of self-other relations and how these two lines of development interact within a given context. All the contributions attempt to portray the child’s developing awareness of the self in relation to the social world, but all consider it from different perspectives and in varying degrees of detail. This useful collection, by a number of well-known contributors, should still be of great value to students of developmental and social psychology.

Author : George Butterworth,Paul Light
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : NWU:35556001290014

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Social Cognition by George Butterworth,Paul Light Pdf

Author : Jessica Sommerville,Jean Decety
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315520551

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Social Cognition by Jessica Sommerville,Jean Decety Pdf

Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cognition and social behavior across species and the life span. The volume is organized according to two central themes that address issues of continuity and change both at the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic level. First, it addresses to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are shared across species, versus abilities and capacities that are uniquely human. Second, it covers to what extent social cognitive abilities and behaviors are continuous across periods of development within and across the life span, versus their change with age. This volume offers a fresh perspective on social cognition and behavior, and shows the value of bringing together different disciplines to illuminate our understanding of the origins, mechanisms, functions, and development of the many capacities that have evolved to facilitate and regulate a wide variety of behaviors fine-tuned to group living.

Author : Carla Sharp,Peter Fonagy,Ian Goodyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015082736490

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Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology by Carla Sharp,Peter Fonagy,Ian Goodyer Pdf

Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others' thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives. It has been shown that many children with psychiatric disorders have problems in social cognition. In this book, leaders in the fields of developmental psychopathology examine social cognition across a wide range of disorders.

Author : John H. Flavell,Lee Ross
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981-05-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521281563

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Social Cognitive Development by John H. Flavell,Lee Ross Pdf

A group of distinguished social scientists from a wide range of academic backgrounds the opportunity to reflect on social cognitive development.

Author : Nancy Eisenberg
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803956858

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Social Development by Nancy Eisenberg Pdf

Published in cooperation with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology To some degree, the issues raised by social psychologists and developmentalists overlap, each of them offering unique possibilities by which to explore questions of interest. Social Development addresses this issue and attempts to foster an awareness of the interesting research on the interface of social and developmental psychology. Written by a cast of leading researchers, this volume provides a multi-level perspective on the common boundaries between social and developmental psychology with an eye toward synthesizing research from many fields including personality, education, social work, and family studies. The contributors raise questions that are often not recognized by investigators due to their lack of knowledge of work and ideas outside their own discipline. Some of the specific subjects covered are individual differences in predicting others' thoughts and feelings, naturally occurring interpersonal expectancies, self-conceptions and their development, and social development and self-monitoring. Researchers and students involved in social psychology, developmental psychology, personality, social work, family studies, sociology, and adolescence will find Social Development to be a lucid, insightful, and interesting volume.

Author : Philippe Rochat
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135681265

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Early Social Cognition by Philippe Rochat Pdf

This volume explores the development as early as infancy of social cognitive abilities, including prelinguistic communicative and monitoring abilities hitherto only suspected. For developmental psychologists and early childhood educators.

Author : Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199890729

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Navigating the Social World by Mahzarin R. Banaji,Susan A. Gelman Pdf

Navigating the social world requires sophisticated cognitive machinery that, although present quite early in crude forms, undergoes significant change across the lifespan. This book will be the first to report on evidence that has accumulated on an unprecedented scale, showing us what capacities for social cognition are present at birth and early in life, and how these capacities develop through learning in the first years of life. The volume will highlight what is known about the discoveries themselves but also what these discoveries imply about the nature of early social cognition and the methods that have allowed these discoveries -- what is known concerning the phylogeny and ontogeny of social cognition. To capture the full depth and breadth of the exciting work that is blossoming on this topic in a manner that is accessible and engaging, the editors invited 70 leading researchers to develop a short report of their work that would be written for a broad audience. The purpose of this format was for each piece to focus on a single core message: are babies aware of what is right and wrong, why do children have the same implicit intergroup preferences that adults do, what does language do to the building of category knowledge, and so on. The unique format and accessible writing style will be appealing to graduate students and researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468435665

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Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self by Michael Lewis Pdf

It is always enlightening to inquire about the origins of a research en deavor or a particular theoretical approach. Beginning with the observa tion of the mental life of the infant in 1962, Michael Lewis has contrib uted to the change in the view of the infant as an insensate mass of confusion to a complex and intellectual being. Anyone fortunate enough to have participated in the infancy research of the 1960s knows how exciting it was to have discovered in this small creature such a full and complex organism. More central to the origins of this work was the perception of the infant as an interactive, not a reactive, organism, and as one who influenced its social environment and constructed its cogni tive life, not one who just passively received information. Other areas of psychology had already begun to conceptualize the organism as active and interactive, even while developmental psychologists still clung to either simple learning paradigms, social reinforcement theories, or reflex ive theories. Even though Piaget had proposed an elaborate interactive theory, it was not until the late 1960s that his beliefs were fully im plemented into developmental theory and practice. A concurrent trend was the increase of concern with mother-infant interactions (Ainsworth, 1969; Bowlby, 1969; Goldberg & Lewis, 1969; Lewis & Goldberg, 1969) which provided the impetus for the study of social and emotional as well as cognitive development.

Author : Bruce D. Homer,Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317778134

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The Development of Social Cognition and Communication by Bruce D. Homer,Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda Pdf

For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children learn enable new modes of cognition, which in turn allow for more complex social interactions. The model of early child development that emerges is one in which equal importance is given to the socio-cultural context in which children are developing, and to the role played by children in actively constructing their own knowledge. The book is organized into four thematic sections, each introduced by an integrative overview. The first section, "Language and Cognition," examines the function of language in young children's lives. The second section, "Intentionality and Communication," explores young children's understanding of intentions and their verbal and non-verbal communication. The third section, "Theory of Mind and Pedagogy," examines the ways in which developments in cognitive and communicative skills transform children's participation in the process of teaching and learning. The final section, "Narrative and Autobiographical Memory," looks at the effects of narrative on young children's understanding of themselves and their world. This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with young children's learning and development.