Articles For Lecture 8

Question 1

what was the focus of warneken and tomasello 2006 study

Answer 1

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

Question 2

how many infants participated in the study

Answer 2

24 infants aged 18-24 months participated

Question 3

how many situations were infants tested in during the study?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

how many tasks did the infants help in duirng the study

Answer 4

6 out of 10 tasks

Question 5

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

Answer 5

84%

Question 6

how many of the infants helped in at least one task

Answer 6

22 out of 24

Question 7

how did the chimpanzees results differ from the human results

Answer 7

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