A Study On The Cognitive Development Of Social Interaction Of Others In Groups From 4-6 Year Olds

Joelsensen said: "We create ourselves and create relationships with each other." Therefore,individual existence cannot be separated from the interaction with others.People always need to maintain a variety of relationship to meet the self-development.Thus,the adult world has explored a set of laws that can be used for maintaining social interactions,that is,they have a sound theory of society.Have that children also had their own viewpoints of the social world? The previous studies showed that early childhood had already have naive cognition of society,so what are the development characteristics of cognition of early domestic children? At the same time,the researcher found that the conclusions of foreign studies are still controversial,so that,it is necessary to make further investigation.Based on this thinking,this study decided to find out about their naive theory of society by exploring how children behave in groups.The research refers to the paradigm of novel groups used in Rhodes' s(2012)studies and makes some improvements,and then uses this paradigm to conduct semi-structured interviews with 373 children aged 4-6 years.This study mainly includes the following objectives: First,finding the children how to predict social interactions in groups who among aged 4-6 years;Second,whether their cognition will be influenced by identity,group characteristics and behavioral characteristics;Finally,exploring children's interpretation characteristics of social communication in groups.The results showed that:(1)Children aged 4-6 showed group preference and prejudice when predicting social interactions of others,but compared with children aged 5 and above,4-year-old children showed weaker group effects.It showed that children's cognition level of groups increased with age;(2)The naive cognition of groups was not significantly different;(3)Whether the bystander or a member of the group,children 4-6 years old showed consistency in predicting social interactions of others: they should be friendly to members of the same group,and harmful behavior should point to other Group of individuals;(4)Under two different groups,the interpretation of the relationship between the children of 4-6 years old by others had already resulted in preference and prejudice because of the group.Compared with no competition,children showed stronger inner group preference under friendly behavioral conditions;(5)Children who aged at 4-6 also showed a higher degree of consistency in explaining the reasons behind their behavior: When friendly behaviors occurred within the groups,they tended to use social classifications to explain.When these behaviors occurred outside the group,they were more likely to use social relations to explain;when the injury pointed to the own group,it was more explained by the individual's psychological level;while when injury pointed to members outside the group,they preferred to use the social classification to explain.