Week 6: Social Cognition and Development Flashcards
______ is ‘on-line’ at birth and mediates preferential tracking. This face system is thought to be an innate mechanism for bringing faces into the infant’s visual field.
a. subcortical face system
b. cortical face system
a. subcortical face system
_____ develops later than the subcortical face system and mediates face preferences. The face system is thought to be a developed face representation which has been shaped by the innate orienting reflex.
a. subcortical face system
b. cortical face system
b. cortical face system
To discriminate between both the human faces and the monkey faces. Infants were how old?
a. 6 months old
b. 10 months old
c. 1 year old
d. 3 months old
a. 6 months old
To only able to discriminate between the human faces, infants were how old?
a. 6 months old
b. 10 months old
c. 1 year old
d. 3 months old
b. 10 months old
_____ is ‘[a]n aspect of early communication [where] a mother and her child both [look] at the same object’
a. Gaze following infants
b. Singular attention
c. Joint visual attention
c. Joint visual attention
- six months, infants follow to first object they see in their field of view
- ten months, infants follow to any object in their field of view
- eighteen months, infants can manage objects outside of their visual field.
Newborn infants prefer to look at direct gazing faces rather than averted gaze faces
a. Gaze following infants
b. Singular attention
c. Joint visual attention
a. Gaze following infants
_____is the ability to impute mental states to oneself and to others which are different from one’s own current mental state
a. A conceptual shift
b. An innate module for mental states
c. Theory of mind
d. Appearance reality
c. Theory of mind
Pretending a banana is a phone requires _____ from the perceptual information that the object is indeed a banana
a. autism
b. emotional development
c. appearance reality
d. decouple
d. decouple
