ED PSYCH 331 Exam Guide 2024 with Correct Answers

joint attention - Correct Answer other people are intentional agents (they have intentions & the child can coordinate with them), 9 months triadic behaviors - Correct Answer gaze following (stronger language skills), pointing (before 9-12 months babies look at the pointer's hand, some by 9 months, most by 14 months), imitative learning, social referencing social referencing - Correct Answer tendency to look to a significant person in an ambiguous situation for clarifying information theory of mind - Correct Answer other people are mental agents, their beliefs and thoughts are different than the child and the child is aware of it, 4 years, improves with age, as it develops children can understand humor false belief tasks - Correct Answer assess theory of mind, assesses whether or not children can imagine what someone with another perspective would believe even if they know the belief is false theory of mind errors - Correct Answer spotlight effect, illusion of transparency (overestimate how much others know about your mental state) desire - Correct Answer mental states motivated by physiology or emotion, children understand desire as young as 12 months, by 18-24 months children can express desire with language video learning defecit - Correct Answer kids under 3 don't learn well from video or tv 4 components of emotion - Correct Answer an event is important, physiological changes, readiness for action, appraisal of an event appraisal - Correct Answer how an event is interpreted 6 basic emotions - Correct Answer interest, joy/happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear social emotions - Correct Answer envy, embarrassment, shame, guilt, and pride; emerge in toddlerhood; envy and embarrassment 15-24 months; shame, guilt, and pride 30-36 months 4 cognitive abilities required to experience social emotions - Correct Answer awareness of being your own person, awareness of rules, ability to evaluate the self against rules, ability to evaluate if you caused something