PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Facial Expression, Eye Tracking
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6 month olds: the adult is a stimulus. Sharing attention: triadic interaction, infant, caregiver, object. Social cognition and communication from 9-15 months: 12-13 months of age: able to direct attention, follow attention and imitate. Social referencing: the coming together of social information gathering, the infant looks at the mother when she is about to put rock into mouth and mother"s face is in disgust, makes baby put down rock. If mother is expressing joy: babies more likely to pass. Infants appreciate that parents can supply informing in the form of an emotional appraisal about novel object (person, thing or situation) Infants spontaneously sue such information from a third party or referee (parent or experimental confederate) to resolve their own uncertainty to guide their actions. Infants needs to be able to decode signal- need to have enough experience of emotions of what is good or bad: need to learn a range of different facial expressions/emotions.
