These developmental theories center on various aspects of growth, including social, emotional, and cognitive development. Why do children behave in certain ways? Is their behavior related to their ...

Still, the researchers found differences in the mental processes of primates ... Another milestone in the development of theory of mind is imitation. As babies develop, they begin to imitate ...

Recognizing and inferring the mental states of others is a critical ... We are also interested in the link between the development of prosocial behaviors (e.g., empathy) and theory of mind.

Over time, researchers have proposed various theories of the condition from the ... The diametric model of the mind and mental illness holds that autism and psychosis exist on opposite ends ...

Modern Theories of Development: an Introduction to Theoretical Biology.

Freud reached a conclusion that would transform the very nature of the theory of mental life he was still inventing: his patients, Freud now believed, had been reporting fantasies. In most cases ...

development, and assessment of this reasoning, a convenient short-hand has been to refer to the adult-level ability to reason about the mental states of others as ‘Theory-of-Mind’.” ...

Natural Selection (9:04) Darwin's marriage and the development of his thinking Darwin's relationships with his brother, scientific peers, and future wife Darwin considers Malthus’ theories of ...