When1: 1895
When2: 1896
Who: James Mark Baldwin [Baldwin, James Mark]
What: sociologist
Where: USA
works\ Mental Development in the Child and the Race [1895]; Consciousness and Evolution [1896]
Detail: He lived 1861 to 1934. People behave in different ways in the presence of others {social facilitation}. People can acquire knowledge and build it into structure by adding more knowledge {genetic epistemology}.
Children learn to differentiate knower and known, in both themselves and others, and to reintegrate such knowledge. Infants do not differentiate between subjects and objects or self and others {adualism}. They learn by observation and imitation to see other behavior {projective behavior}, then do it and feel it {subjective behavior}, and then infer it in others {ejective behavior}. Consciousness structure develops by this process until about age 13.
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