Here we are on our second to last session of the Fall semsester and have evolved to the highest level of our PEOPLE rubric, Perspective taking, the ability to take other's thoughts, ideas and personality into account. The concept of "theory of the mind"
Homework this week...
Observe your child's perspective taking, how has it changed? Do you see them understanding where others are coming from? How do you "get" other people?
"How do we understand each other? Although we are rarely explicitly aware of it, we utilize notions of invisible, intangible, and yet pragmatically very useful entities such as intentions, desires, beliefs, and knowledge to make human and animal behavior comprehensible and predictable. So automatic are these processes of inferences and attributions that it is not until something goes wrong that their extraordinary characteristics become salient and present themselves to our awareness" Francis F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
"How do we understand each other? Although we are rarely explicitly aware of it, we utilize notions of invisible, intangible, and yet pragmatically very useful entities such as intentions, desires, beliefs, and knowledge to make human and animal behavior comprehensible and predictable. So automatic are these processes of inferences and attributions that it is not until something goes wrong that their extraordinary characteristics become salient and present themselves to our awareness" Francis F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
