Child - Topic 3 Other Reasearch

Question 1

Robert fantz

Answer 1

Babies looked at an image that represented a face longer than an image which represented a mixed up face.

There is a progress to this development, at 1 week they prefer patterns as opposed to blank images. At 2 months they prefer 3D pictures as opposed to 2D. At 3 months they prefer a face rather than a scrambled picture.

Question 2

Frantz

Answer 2

To measure how long a child gazes at an object. Child looks at two stimuli on a box, researcher looks through the other side, the longer the gaze on the object suggests the preferred stimulus.

Experimenter bias is removed as the researcher does not know what the stimulus is.

Useful as this can be done without an adult present.

Question 3

Blakemore and Cooper

Answer 3

Used kittens to limit their visual environments which affected there visual development.

Question 4

Cashon

Answer 4

People can distinguish faces from their own ethnic group. The “own race” effect is present when the child is 3 months.

Question 5

Deregowski

Answer 5

Both adults and children from African tribes found it difficult to perceive depth in the pictorial material, so non western tribes lack pictorial depth perception. Highlights a cultural difference.

Question 6

Ayres

Answer 6

Defines sensory integration as “the neurological process that organises sensation from ones own body and from the environment and makes it possible to use the body effectively within the environment. It is used to explain the relationship between the brain and behaviour and explains why individuals respond in a certain way to sensory input and how it affects behaviour.”

Question 7

Fertel-Daly

Answer 7

A weighted vest for children with development disorders resulted in increased attention to tasks and decrease in self-injury

Question 8

Fazlioglu and Baran

Answer 8

Found that sensory integration positively affected children with ASD compared to controls

Question 9

Lain

Answer 9

Carried out a meta-analysis of 25 studies involving Sensory Integration and found only a few showed clear positive results and most had very small, non-randomised samples.

Question 10

Newman (2016)

Answer 10

Provided scientific evidence as they looked at the effects of structured block play whereby 8 year olds had to construct 3D blocks from paper design. It just took 5 sessions each of 30 minutes to teach the children how to rotate objects properly.