Development of consciousness
Trevarthen, Colwyn and Delafield-Butt, Jonathan; Hopkins, Brian and Geangu, Elena and Linkenauger, Sally, eds. (2017) Development of consciousness. In: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 821-835. ISBN 9781107103412
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Abstract
Recent research that uses refined methods of tracing infant’s movements to determine how they are coordinated and integrated proves they are directed in selective ways to take in and adjust to information from the senses about the present environment. It shows that the circumstances and objects of the infant’s actions are evaluated by the infant as ‘good’ (attractive and rewarding or pleasurable), or ‘bad’ (frightening and avoided, or resisted). The manifestations of purposeful, expectant and evaluated consciousness are identified as proof of Self-awareness, or ‘subjectivity’. Studies of the imitative and provocative actions of newborn infants in response to the behaviours of other persons who give close attention to them prove also that there is an innate Other-awareness, or ‘inter-subjectivity’, that attends to and sympathises with expressive movements of a person (Trevarthen, 2001; Kugiumutzakis and Trevarthen, 2015).
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Trevarthen, Colwyn and Delafield-Butt, Jonathan ![]() | Item type: | Book Section |
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ID code: | 57845 |
Keywords: | human awareness, human consiousness, self awareness, Special aspects of education, Developmental and Educational Psychology |
Subjects: | Education > Special aspects of education |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education Strategic Research Themes > Health and Wellbeing |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 19 Sep 2016 11:19 |
Last modified: | 03 Jan 2021 02:43 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/57845 |
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