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What sorts of insights can we gain fromstudying human development |
o Practical: Bettereducation and parenting · How to optimizelimited resources and time · How to teachlimited proficiency, students w development disabilities · Social justice:improve the quality of children at risk · Poverty leads to alot of health problems as well· Clinical: informthe treatments for developmental disabilities· Understand natureof developmental disease and how they emerge· Theoretical: tounderstand a trait we need to know how it emerges· Ex. How to walk:tracking the development of babies and walking |
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· Which social skills do developmentalstudies investigate the emergence of? |
o What are early social skills you have to learn to be a highfunctioning adulto Behaviorprediction: babies have a sensitivity to and can discriminate patterns ofbiological movement and can extract motor cues in impoverished visual scenes§ Point light displays – motion recognition based on relationship ofjoints and orientation of movement (canonical/upright, upside down, scrambled)§ Oriented specific recognition: recognize upright but not upside downo Play: how to haveeffective interactions with peers§ Hunting or foraging: part of their playing is practice for hunting§ Mating o Communication(language development) |
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· What is kin recognition? Whichtypes of cues inform it? Which types of cues do babies seem to use to identifycaregivers? |
o Kin recognition isbeing able to recognize which babies are yours (optimize caregivingcosts)/which adults will not kill you and who will feed youo Olfactory (smell), gustatory,visual, and auditory cues§ Hooved moms lick their baby and tasting their own amniotic fluidcauses changes in her olfactory system· Gustatory input à olfactorychanges· If another baby approaches, she’ll know its not herso Babies useolfactory and auditory cues § Baby and mom can recognize e/o by smell§ Baby can hear mom through the amniotic fluid bc the voice resonatorclose to the amniotic sacà distortedbut babies can definitely discriminate· Babies show a preferenceof mom’s voice to other womano Babies visual cues come in much later (around 8 months)§ Babies will discriminate mom from other women based on hair line§ Early first year: positive and negative discrimination§ Later first year: distinction btwn angry/sad§ 4 month olds don’t discriminate around faces à only around 8 months |
