Human Growth and Development / Unit 11 HGD 1546 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cognitive and Affective Theory of Mind
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The idea
Cognitive theory of mind reads others' intentions and beliefs; affective theory of mind reads their feelings. Cognitive empathy adopts a viewpoint; affective empathy shares an emotion.
In practice
Face and emotion processing improving from adolescence into emerging adulthood.
Where people slip
All four improve in early adulthood; autistic adults show more difficulty on theory-of-mind tasks, partly depending on general ability.
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