HUMANBIO 4B WEEK 2
Romanian orphans study - ANSWER: - extreme deprivation, lack of secure attachment
- some adopted into US and UK
- Cognitive impairment was linearly associated with duration of deprivation
- Dramatic catch-up for children adopted before 6 months
- persistent deficit for those who remained longest
- substantial variability and high resilience in some children
Equipoise - ANSWER: the requirement that investigators not know the answer to the question
before the conduct the trial
Newborn's facial preferences? - ANSWER: -They like face-like objects
- Younger infants are sensitive to differences in identity for monkeys and humans
- Older infants are sensitive to identity only for humans
Pro of infant-directed speech? - ANSWER: Gives baby the cue they are being addressed
Pointing - ANSWER: - declarative pointing emerges around the first birthday
- early sign of a desire to share, with flexible communicative function
What do social cues do? - ANSWER: Consistent sources of information in the perceptual signal
What are social inferences? - ANSWER: Reasoning about things we can't see as well as what we can
Social learning - ANSWER: imitating the means, not just the end
Rational imitation - ANSWER: Study about the researcher using their forehead to press the button
Theory of mind - ANSWER: in assuming that other individuals want, think, believe, and the like, one
infers states that are not directly observable and uses these states to predict the behavior of others
as well as one's own
