My brilliant padlet by Masen Stephenson

Social Development and the Theory of Mind

stephensonm2404 — 2024-12-09 04:41:41 UTC

The theory of mind refers to the ability to understand that individuals operate off of a certain mental state.

Mind-blindness is the inability to discern peoples thoughts.

Different cultures develop the theory of mind around the same age, it just might not be in the same order from one culture to the next. Different cultural expectations can cause certain aspects of theory of mind to show while limiting others. A good example of this is the expression of opinions.

False belief is the ability to understand that other people believe something you know is untrue.

Recursive thinking is basically a thought within a thought. The person thinks what the other person might be thinking about what they're thinking.

Hostile attribution bias is when someone thinks someone is being hostile rather than benign.

Play also factors in a lot in the theory of mind. Play is good for social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.

For this theory to be used within a classroom, it takes thinking about others thoughts, and incorporating play and socialization.

Emotional Development

stephensonm2404 — 2024-12-09 05:00:02 UTC

Emotional development and social development go hand in hand. As humans, we express a wide array of emotions. With culture, comes different levels of emotional expression. Emotional display rules are the expectations and standards from different cultures on emotion. Social referencing is when someone takes note of certain reactions. This later leads to empathy. Empathy is a crucial thing in a child's social development. Empathetic people tend to be most liked because they can relate to others. There are also emotions like guilt and shame these are known as self evaluating emotions, which start to show around age 3. Temperament is the general way in which we respond to experiences in the world. Emotional intelligence involves the understanding and control of one's emotions. Emotional regulation is when you find ways to cope. Self control is the control of certain behaviors. Emotional attachment can be a good thing most of the time. However, some children can become attached to random people. The way to solve this is to give them better awareness and assess their homelife.

My classroom would place value in empathy. However, when things get complex beyond my knowledge there would have to be outside intervention or accommodations. However, there is still things I can do like having expectations of respect.

Identity

stephensonm2404 — 2024-12-09 05:14:06 UTC

Infants start developing a sense of self due to awareness of the ability to make things happen.

Eventually, they will start to us pronouns like you although the use of it might be limited. Self becomes tied to what a child can do during early childhood. Initiative versus guilt refers to when a child initiates activity and sometimes does it wrong leading to criticisms which leads to guilt. As a child ventures into adolescence, their sense of self becomes more complex and unclear to them. Often, higher complexity of self means higher self-esteem. Some might develop what is called a negative identity which is a persona of someone who doesn't follow the rules. A person's moral identity is based off of beliefs, religion and cultural norms.