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Nativist
Born with self-consciousness
Empiricist
Environmental factors through learning and experience
Learning through general information processing
Both nativist and empirist agree on
naive psychology
Meltzoff(1995) study with 18 month olds
Baby tried helping human to put cap on pen but not mechanical arm because it understands humans have intentions not inanimate objects
Fear of strangers:
5-7 months
separation anxiety
8 months
social smile
6-7 weeks
first negative emotion that appears
distress
social referencing
9-10 months
-see if something is safe from reaction of others
laughter
3-4 months
anger
2 months
fear
6-7 months
how do infants self regulate?
self calming behavior(6months,sucking thumb)
self distraction(4 months, looking away)
attachment to indivudal occurs at
6 months
ferguson and waxman
beeping experiment, non-human language can still facilitate infants object categorization only if it’s in a communicative exchange
david hume
discrete events can be combined to coherent wholes
discrete emotions(darwin)
emotions are distinct from one another
each emotion is specific to a certain bodily and facial reaction
emotions are automatic(cant control)
functionalist approach to emotions
emotions are affected by envrionemnt
emotions are subconscious at first but can be faked
emotions are used to promote action toward a goal
emotions are not discrete and vary based on social environment
harry harlow
monkey
wanted to test if attachment based on learning theory or comfort
bowlby
internal working model of attachment