Early Social Skills and Comm Development Flashcards
True or False?
Pre-linguistic communication is only crying
False
Pre-linguistic
communication is more
than just crying
Is crying a one-way or two-way street communication?
Two-way street communication
What are the 2 types of intersubjectivity in early socialisation?
1) Primary intersubjectivity
2) Secondary intersubjectivity
Infant starts paying attention to faces and making eye contact
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
Infant starts producing vocalisations
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
Infant imitates
sounds and gesture
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
Infant can now point
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
Infant applies turn-taking when talking with another person
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
Infant is aware of shared attention
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
What are the 5 types of social interaction infants with primary intersubjectivity perform?
First months:
1) Attention to faces
2) Eye contact
3) Produce vocalisations (even if it is not a language)
4) Imitate sounds and gestures
5) One-at-a-time interactions
What are the 3 types of social interactions infants with secondary intersubjectivity perform?
Older infants:
1) Pointing
2) Turntaking
3) Shared attention
Define intersubjectivity
The interactions between the self and others
At what age do infant interactions fundementaly change?
9 months
A 10-week old infant mimicked the sounds her father makes when talking to her
Is this an example of:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
A 1 year old infant produced vocalisations when taking turns talking to her father, but did not actually communicate in a proper language
The infant also points at the TV to get her father’s attention
Is this an example of:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
Infant engages in one-at-a-time interactions
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
Infant only pays attention to faces and makes eye contact but does not look at other things around them when communicating
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
Caregiver and infant share experiences in face-to-face interactions. But these interactions are dyadic (baby and caregiver, baby and object)
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
In primary intersubjectivity, infants and caregivers interact face-to-face in a _____ manner
Dyadic
Define dyadic interactions
When the caregiver and infant appear to be responding to each other in a bidirectional way through circles of interaction from one to the other
Simply = Infant can only interact with one other person/object at a time
e.g. baby and caregiver, baby and object
When the caregiver and infant appear to be responding to each other in a bidirectional way through circles of interaction from one to the other
Simply = Infant can only interact with one other person/object at a time
e.g. baby and caregiver, baby and object
This is known as…?
Dyadic interactions
There are no assumption of the perspective of others
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
These interactions are not intentional
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
a. Primary intersubjectivity
At what age do infants mimic facial expressions?
Newborn
At what age do infants imitate vocalisations/sounds?
3-4 months
What is dyadic mimicry?
When infants imitate another person’s vocalisations and/or facial expressions
When infants imitate another person’s vocalisations and/or facial expressions
This is known as…?
Dyadic mimicry
Are dyadic mimicries intentional?
No
There is no understanding of others’ intentions
But it shows that infants are motivated to engage with others
Simply= Infants only mimic expressions and sounds, but does not know the meaning of such expressions/sounds
They do not have proper intentions to communicate, they are just engaging with others
Infants have a preference for things that look like _____
Faces
In a study investigating infant’s attention to faces and eye gaze, what do infants prefer to look at?
Infants prefer to look at direct gazes, in comparison to averted gazes
Describe the study and results investigating infant’s attention to faces and eye gaze
List 3 points
Study:
1) Infants were shown direct eye contact faces and averted eye contact faces
2) Researchers measured how long the infants looked at each face
Results:
3) Infants looked longer at the direct eye contact face than averted eye contact face
4) This suggests they prefer direct gazes
Describe Senju and Csibra’s (2008) study on infant’s attention to faces and eye gaze
List 3 points
1) Infant sat opposite an adult who looked down on the table
The table had two different toys on the opposite ends
2) In one condition, the adult makes direct eye contact with the infant before looking at the toy on the left (ostensive)
3) In the 2nd condition, the adult does not make direct eye contact with the infant (continued to look down at the table) before looking at the toy on the left (nonostensive)
Senju and Csibra’s (2008) study on infant’s attention to faces and eye gaze:
1) Infant sat opposite an adult who looked down on the table
The table had two different toys on the opposite ends
2) In one condition, the adult makes direct eye contact with the infant before looking at the toy on the left (ostensive)
3) In the 2nd condition, the adult does not make direct eye contact with the infant (continued to look down at the table) before looking at the toy on the left (nonostensive)
What were the findings?
List 2 points
1) 6 m/o infants only follow
the gaze to the object if
preceded by mutual eye
gaze
Simply = 6 m/o infants only followed the adult’s gaze to the toy if the adult made direct eye contact beforehand
2) Same results were found for infant directed speech (making mutual eye contact when communicating in IDS) but not adult directed speech
At what age do infants start to show secondary intersubjectivity?
9 months
At what age are infants pointing and aware of turn-taking and joint attention?
9 months
Caregiver and infant share experiences and these interactions start to become triadic (the infant and caregiver interacting together with a toy; social
referencing)
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
In secondary intersubjectivity, the caregiver and infant share experiences and these interactions start to become _________
Triadic
Define triadic interaction
When the infant and caregiver interact together with a toy (3 way communication)
Simply = Social referencing
The interactions become intentional, and infants start to assume that others have their own perspective
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
In secondary intersubjectivity, interactions start to become _______
Intentional
In secondary intersubjectivity, infants start to assume that others have _________
their own perspective
Infants are able to coordinate emotional response with another person
Does this apply to:
a. Primary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
b. Secondary intersubjectivity
Describe the “Still Face” experiment
List 3 points
1) Parent starts off by engaging and interacting with the infant
2) The parent then “freezes” and stops responding to the infant
3) The interaction breaks down
Describe the results of the “Still Face” experiment
List 2 points
1) Infant attempts to repair the interaction (social engagement cues) through vocalisations and hand gestures
2) When the parent still isn’t responding, the infant became distressed, cried and lost control of their posture
Describe the findings of the “Visual Cliff” experiment and how social referencing affected the infant’s decisions
List 4 points
1) Visual cliff (depth perception)
2) Infants will look to the parent for an emotional cue of how to respond
3) There was shared attention to the situation and a transfer of information
4) e.g. If the parent made happy faces and encouraged the infant to cross the cliff, the infant attempted to go over the cliff
If the parent made fearful faces and discouraged the infant to cross the cliff, the infant refused to go over the cliff
Infant engages in intentional communication
Does this apply to:
a. Primary Intersubjectivity
b. Secondary Intersubjectivity
b. Secondary Intersubjectivity
The beginnings of intentional communication by the infant signified by …?
List 4 points
1) The use of eye contact/pointing to direct another’s attention
2) The consistent use of vocalisation to indicate specific goal
3) Evidence of child waiting for response
4) Persistence if not understood (repeat their attempts to get attention)
1) The use of eye contact/pointing to direct another’s attention
2) The consistent use of vocalisation to indicate specific goal
3) Evidence of child waiting for response
4) Persistence if not understood (repeat their attempts to get attention)
These are signs that an infant intends to communicate in a ______ manner
Intentional
What are the 2 key modes of communication important for language acquisition?
1) Turn-Taking
2) Joint attention
Turn-Taking and Joint attention are 2 key modes of communication important for ___________?
Language acquisition
What are the 3 main components of joint attention?
1) Sharing a focus of attention
2) Following attention
3) Directing attention
1) Sharing a focus of attention
2) Following attention
3) Directing attention
These are 3 main components of…?
Joint attention