Articles For Lecture 8 Flashcards

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what was the focus of warneken and tomasello 2006 study

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the study examined altruistic heliping behaviour in human infants and young chimpanzees, comparing their willingness to help adults in various situations.

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how many infants participated in the study

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24 infants aged 18-24 months participated

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how many situations were infants tested in during the study?

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10 different situations where an adult was having trouble achieving a goal.

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how many tasks did the infants help in duirng the study

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6 out of 10 tasks

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what percentage of the helping acts occurred within the first 10s

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84%

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how many of the infants helped in at least one task

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22 out of 24

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how did the chimpanzees results differ from the human results

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chimpanzees did not reliably help in the tasks, results being negative for non-human primates

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