Early Social Cognition

Question 1

What are the 4 main landmarks of early social cognition

Answer 1

1. Sensitivity to features of sentient beings
2. Teleology and rationality
3. Representational mind
4. Refined complex introspection

Question 2

How old are children in the sensitivity to features of sentient beings landmark

Answer 2

0-12 month

Question 3

How old are children in the teleology and rationality landmark

Answer 3

9-18 months

Question 4

How old are children in the representational mind landmark

Answer 4

3-5 years

Question 5

How old are children in the refined complex introspection landmark

Answer 5

6+

Question 6

What are aspects of development of features to sentient beings

Answer 6

1. Babies are interested in faces

2. gaze

Question 7

What did Johnson find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

Answer 7

Showed them either a face, a scrambled face or a blank face

Turn their head further and rotated eyes when shape was a face

Question 8

What was a follow up study to Johnson to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

Answer 8

Infants looked more when a shape had a lot going on in the top half compared to the when there was a lot going on in the bottom half - looks more like a face

Question 9

What did Farroni (2013) find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

Answer 9

Shown either a face or a moving wheel

Looked at both - older the infant more activation in areas of brain for face. Didn’t find it for the moving wheel

Question 10

How do social stimuli differ from non social stimuli

Answer 10

1. Social agents can move on their own
2. Social agents can change direction without external influence
3. Causal reactions can be delayed

Question 11

What did Spelke find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

Answer 11

Children looked more at action at a distance event (things move without touching) as it was surprising

Question 12

What is rationality

Answer 12

State of being reasonable based on facts

Question 13

What is teleology

Answer 13

Human actions have a definite end

Question 14

What did Gergely, Nádasdy, Csibra, Bíró (1995) find and do to with inferred action

Answer 14

Children habituated to a ball jumping over a shape. Then shown the ball jumping over nothing

Question 15

What did Gergely, Nádasdy, Csibra, Bíró(1995) do and find to do with inferred action

Answer 15

children shown ball jumping over wall to get to another ball. wall is then removed and shown ball going straight or jumping

9 and 12 month old looked longer when ball then jumps when wall is removed