Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, and Theory of Mind

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 49-75

  Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

"Like Me" theory for early social cognition three developmental phases for getting early social cognition off the ground; Body babbling and self experience; Imitation, depending on process of active intermodal mapping (AIM); Newborn infants, no inkling of the similarity between self and other; Piaget's Play Dreams and Imitation in Childhood about people, not how children come to understand the inner life of others; Piaget's The Construction of Reality in the Child chapters on objects, space, time and causality; Problem of developing social cognition; Recognition of self starting point for social cognition and not its culmination; Social cognition and origins of imitation, empathy and theory of mind; Young infants, recognizing similarity between self and other toehold for building social cognition

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DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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