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precocial
can fend for self from birth or young age
altricial
dependent on mother for longer (babies and apes)
nativism
nature
empiricism
nurture
consequences of physical evolution
selectss for strong social skills to gain adult attention, need these skills for survival
human family size
builds a social environment
Plato’s views
we are born w knowledge, we just have to remember it, knowledge is innate
Aristotle’s view
children get theirrr knowledge from experience, “activated potential” between nature and nurture
John Locke
Blank Slate, fully nurture
Jean Piaget view
Nature and nurture interact, similar tot aristotle
Rousseau View
Natural order of development, nativism
Apes and human birth differencess
humans born 3mo earlierr because of physical evolutionary changes
results of shorter weaning
humans have more kids
Empiricism
driven mainly by
experience
★ discontinuous
★ focus on differences
between individuals
Nativism
driven mainly by
biology
★ continuous
★ focus on similarity
between individuals
(universality)
naturalistic fallacy
what is natural is good - incorrect statement
active
children involved in the learning process
passive
children sit and absorb information
global
overall trend which improves all skills
local skill
only improves specific skills - math or reading. different mechanisms for certain skills
visual pereception in babies
bad vision when young, gets better 6mo
william james
babies worlds are buzzing confusion
perception
interpretation of the world
visual acuity
sharpness of visual discrimination. seeing lines vs blobs
habituation assumption and drawback
relies on babies preferring a new stimulus. drawback it does not show preference
how does visual acuity develop
eyeball growth
Categorical perception:
tendency to cluster stimuli
that vary along a continuum into discrete categories
categorical perception of colour is
not dependent on language
testing infantss after 1st hour of birth
Infants turned
more to follow
most face-like
image showing
FACE PREFERENCE
babies preferences for faces
Prefer “top-heavy” faces until 3 months, then lose
top-heavy preference
when do infants prefer their mother
Looking forward
★ Half-profile (45 degrees)
★ But not full profile (side view) , hairline in view
New born face/race preference
Newborns:
DO NOT show preference for own-race or other-race faces
DO NOT show preference for human or monkey faces
3 month face/race preference
3-month-olds:
PREFER caregiver-race faces over other-race faces
PREFER human faces over monkey faces
6 month discrimination face
6-month-olds:
CAN discriminate between two human faces
CAN discriminate between two monkey faces
9 month discrimination face
9-month-olds:
CAN discriminate between two human faces
CAN NOT discriminate between two monkey faces
•Perceptual narrowing
Perceptual narrowing
Increase in the precision of perceptual
processing in one category, at the expense of
perceptual processing outside that category
infants hearing
developed senses at birth, adult-like at 5
years
localizing sounds. at birth
from birth infants turn toward sound - instinctive respond
3 months localizing sound
significance at turning head to face ssound begins
how to test discrimination (auditory)
Infants suck while listening to one sound until they
are habituated (sucking rate decreases to a
certain level)
★ Tells us whether infants dishabituate (increase their
sucking rate) when a new or new-category sound
is played, in contrast to when an old or same-
category sound is played
Testing auditory preferences in infants
Infants learn that if they suck in a certain way they
can hear a certain sound
★ Tells us whether infants suck to produce more of
that sound
newborn prefers ____ voice
mom’s voice from birth, and story read in womb
song preference
infants prefer song sung by mother and not toy, they look towards experimenter singing song from mother
testing music preference experiment set up
General approach:
★ Familiarize 5-month-old infants with a song
★ Manipulate whether or not a known social partner sings it
★ After delay, test infants’ preferences for new people who
sing it
testing music preference hypothesis
★ Hypothesis:
★ Infants should prefer new people who sing that song
★ ONLY when that song is known by a social partner
(like mom or dad)
testing music preference results
★ Infants selectively attend to the singer of a familiar song
★ ... but only when the song is known to a social partner
★ Songs function as social signals in early infancy
Intermodal Perception
integration of information
across sensory modalities (e.g., recognising an
object in one sensory modality that is familiar
through another modality) spikey ball, marbles rattling
when do infants follow gaze of novel object
★ Or behaves contingently
★ Or both
★ The infant assumes it is an agent and is looking at
something
★ May know something I don’t
★ May have goals (directing attention)
other clues to agency
symmetry along one axis
★ self-propulsion
★ Irregular path of travel
★ eyes
★ contingent and reciprocal interactions with other agents
★ non-rigid transformation, like expansion and contraction
(e.g., breathing)
traits of agents that babies derive
Have features like eyes and
hands
Can move under own power
Have mental states
Key finding: Infants believe that agents have mental states
woodward 1998 conclusions
by 6 months babies differentiate between human and mechanical actions
agency and action woodward study
★ If action done by an agent, the agent had a
goal
★ If action done by non-agent, just mechanical
motion
intentions study
★ 14 - 18-month-olds see hands or machine try to remove end of
dumbbell and fail; then they are handed the dumbbell
intentions study conclusions
60% produced intended act after watching human
Only 10% did so after watching machine
when do infants follow gaze
6 months
when do infants social reference
8-9 months
when do babies point
12 months
study that tests babies knowledge
babies point to event when experimenter is not looking, they point to share info
at 12 months infants look to caregiver for info, why do they do this?
infants seek information to regulate
their own behavior, determine their response
visual cliff was used for
testing when infants social reference
when mothers looked scared, but there was no cliff, what did babies do?
very few looked at mother
key finding of cliff study
babies look to other’s
emotional response only when faced with
novel or threatening stimulus
when do children understand desires
Children come to understand desire-
behavior connections by end of 1st year
what is proof of children understanding desires
12-month-olds look in surprise when a
person appears to like one thing, but then
reaches for a different thing
broccoli and goldfish study was used to test ___
desires
at what age did kids give experimenter desired food
18 months
false believe test is used to demonstrate ____
theory of mind
pencils and smarties study found that
3 yearr olds had trouble identifying their own previously held false beliefs
developmental shift at 4 years old shows that
kids can now make Correct predictions based upon false belief
critiques in assertion 4yr olds develop a
belief concept
younger children have problems with inhibition, even if they know something is wrong they will still say it. they have trouble with verbal demands
pretend play significance
children can have hold false beliefs when pretend playing, banana phone.
infant violation of expectation task study
tested if 15 month olds could understand false beliefs , watermelon hidden in box from experimenter
implicit FB
Implicit FB appears early and continues into
adulthood. Spontaneous, automatic
explicit FB
Explicit FB is more robust, based in language
but appears later in development.
what age do children match emotion and TOM
6 years old
when do kids start lying
4+
how many kids white lie
85% in study
features of objects: cosmoe
can influence others w contact, obey gravity, solid, moves continuously, obey inertia, exist outside of our interractions
jean piget view
empiricist leaning, believes stages are universal
assimilation
fitting an object into existing schema
accomodation
making a new schema to accommodate object
birth-1 mo
reflexes
1-4mo
organizing reflexes into behaviour
4-9mo
interaction w objects and people
9-12mo
integration of schemas
object permanence starts at
9 months
A not B blanket test
jean Piaget, babies can only find toy when under hiding point A because babies associate toy with hiding place
Piaget explanation for A not B task
babies incorporate reaching action and experimenters action into toy schema
hidden displacement task
when babies do not see the action and hiding place, they cannot manipulate the representation in their mind.
when do children pass hidden displacement task
18 months
constructivism
child as an active learner
reaching in the dark study
suggest babies remember object - 7moths
drawbridge study 3.5mo baby
habituation and violation of expectation to test if babies are surprised by object goes right thru drawbridge
why do infants fail A not B task
reflexive grasping, inhibitory control, too complex of a task, memory issues
compentence-performance
difference between the underlying psychological ability and articulation of this iin a task
object gravity study
younger babies have expectation, older babies do not get upset.
emergence of new ability
babies generate hypothesis about how objects are supported
concept categories
superordinate, basic, subordinate
how do babies use causal reasoning
use statistics
nativissts and casual reasoning
innate casual module, extraction of core info from event