The researchers manipulated the situation to study the maltreated children, which made this into an experimental study. The experiment group is abused and neglected children, and the control group is the nonmaltreated children. In the first experiment, the participants consist of 16 neglected, 17 abused, and 15 nonmaltreated children from 3 years 3 months to 5 years 6 months. The experiment group participants were selected from Child Protective Service and their medical records. Abused children were coded when there was evidence of non-accidental injury given by a caregiver, and neglected children were coded when a caregiver fail to fulfill the children's physical needs. The control group was selected from a university pediatric clinic that
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The task contains five categories - happy, sad, disgusted, afraid, angry, with five short samples on each category. After being told the stories, participants were shown three 5x7 inch black and white photographs. The task was to choose one suitable picture from the story. In the three photographs, two of them were distraction and the other one was the correct answer. The gender of the model in the pictures was matched with the gender of the child. The results for abuse and neglect are different. Abused children recognized anger as well as the control group, but scored lower for other categories. Neglected children generally scored lower. The researchers examined the study further by doing signal detection statistics. Each answer from the participant was rated with hit rate, false alarm rate, a correct rejection, and a miss. This further action was used to describe children's sensitivity to differences between emotion expression and response biases to define an ambitious stimulus as a target. The conclusion of this experiment confirmed the earlier hypotheses of neglected children. Regarding the abused children, they are almost as sensitive as the control children, however, they set a lower standard for
The task contains five categories - happy, sad, disgusted, afraid, angry, with five short samples on each category. After being told the stories, participants were shown three 5x7 inch black and white photographs. The task was to choose one suitable picture from the story. In the three photographs, two of them were distraction and the other one was the correct answer. The gender of the model in the pictures was matched with the gender of the child. The results for abuse and neglect are different. Abused children recognized anger as well as the control group, but scored lower for other categories. Neglected children generally scored lower. The researchers examined the study further by doing signal detection statistics. Each answer from the participant was rated with hit rate, false alarm rate, a correct rejection, and a miss. This further action was used to describe children's sensitivity to differences between emotion expression and response biases to define an ambitious stimulus as a target. The conclusion of this experiment confirmed the earlier hypotheses of neglected children. Regarding the abused children, they are almost as sensitive as the control children, however, they set a lower standard for