Perspective Taking

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Cards (7)

  • Social cognition = how we make decisions on how to act in certain social situations
  • Perspective taking = our ability to understand a social situation from someone else’s perspective
  • Selman (1977) - children poor at PT had more difficulty forming relationships and were less popular
  • Correlation is not causation - maybe social experiences cause PT
  • Applications - social skills training is used to teach criminals PT so they won’t harm others
  • Atypical development - Marton et al (2009) said 8-12 year olds with ADHD did worse than neurotypicals on PT tasks
  • Cultural differences - Keysar (2007) said Chinese individuals do better on PT tasks than those from the USA