Social Cognition Flashcards
What did Johnson (1991) find out about newborns and face processing?
30 min old newborns can track face stimuli, not just scrambled!
What are the two processes in infant face perception?
Sub-cortical face system and Cortical face system.
What is the sub-cortical face system?
Innate mechanism to bring faces into the infant’s visual field
What is the cortical face system?
Develops a bit later. Face representation shaped by sub-cortical face system
Who conducted the study about facial recognition with monkeys and humans?
Pascalis, De Haan and Nelson (2002)
What did Pascalis et al conclude about facial discrimination?
All monkeys look similar to us, but a new human face is more exciting!
What do infants prefer with the ‘eye gaze’?
They prefer to look at direct gazing faces than averted gazing faces.
What is Joint Visual Attention?
The ability to locate the object of someone else’s attention.
Joint Visual Attention at 6 months means that..
Infants follow first object in their field of view
Joint Visual Attention at 10 months means that..
They can follow to any object in their field of view
Joint Visual Attention at 1.5 years means that..
Infants can manage objects outside their visual field
Interactional Synchrony is basically when an infant…
Speaks and moves in synchrony with adult admirers
The Rouge Test and Sticker Task try to see..
Whether the infant can identify themselves in the present, rather than on video tape or mirror
When does false belief develop?
3-4 years old
What is Theory of Mind?
Knowledge of mental states of self and others
What did John Bowlby discover about attachment?
That the early bond between parent and child is crucial to emotional development
What did Harlow and Zimmerman discover about monkeys and attachment?
Who fed the monkey was insignificant - warmth and comfort preferred in cloth mum
