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  • Automatic Perspective Taking: The Debate between Implicit Mentalizing and Submentalizing

    Subjects: Psychology >> History of Psychology submitted time 2021-05-02

    Abstract: Abstract: The phenomenon of automatic perspective taking has been confirmed by many studies, but the mechanism of this effect is still controversial. At present, there are two kinds of views: implicit mentalizing view holds that automatic perspective taking is due to the spontaneous selection of other's perspectives as domain-specific process; while submentalizing view proposes domain-general process, such as reflective attention orientation or spatial coding of location, which simulates the role of mentalizing in social environment. By analyzing the existing studies, we propose a collaborative model of mentalizing and submentalizing, which can perform cooperatively or independently. In the future, more rigorous research methods and advanced technology should be used to study the diverse subjects, to explore the mechanism on automatic perspective taking.

  • The effects of morphological awareness on character recognition and dictation in low-level grades

    Subjects: Psychology >> Educational Psychology submitted time 2020-02-13

    Abstract: " Abstract: Character recognition and dictation are two important skills for literacy at the word level. Because Chinese is a logographic script and characters are visually complex, reading and spelling character are more difficult than learning alphabet language. The development of character recognition and dictation in Chinese has unique characteristics. Many cross-sectional researches investigated how morphological awareness contributed to logographic and alphabet language learning, and its influence on the development of character recognition and dictation. However, few studies explored the relationship between morphological awareness and the development of character recognition and dictation over time. The present four-wave longitudinal research was conducted in two Mandarin Chinese primary schools for two years, with a sample consisting of 127 first grader students. A battery of measures, including nonverbal IQ, phonological awareness, orthographic awareness, morphological awareness (homophone awareness, compound word production) were administered in order to investigate the influential factors of character recognition and dictation development in children. The analysis included an unconditional latent growth model to examine the growth trajectory of character recognition and dictation, and a conditional latent growth model to examine the contribution of morphological awareness to the growth of character recognition and dictation The results of the unconditional latent growth model showed that: (1) the developmental trajectory of character recognition showed linear growth it grew at a constant speed. The developmental trajectory of dictation showed non-linear growth, and the growth took place at a fast pace in the beginning and at a slower pace in the latter half of the development trend. Instead of Matthew effect, a compensation effect existed in both character recognition and dictation development, and the standardized correlation coefficients of intercept and slope for character recognition was -0.33 significantly, and for dictation was -0.89 significantly. (2) Homophone awareness and compound word production predicted significantly the children’s initial level(β=0.40, p<0.001; β=0.14, p<0.05 respectively) and the growth rate of character recognition (β=0.28, p<0.001; β=0.25, p<0.001 respectively), but not the growth rate in dictation. These results suggest that the growth trajectories were different for character recognition and dictation, and the later growth rates of character recognition and dictation were not decided by initial growth levels. The role of morphological awareness was more significant on the development of character recognition than on the development of dictation from Grade 1 to Grade 2.