PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reward System, Habituation, Mirror Neuron
18 Apr 2020
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Multiple levels of analyses to study complex problems. Sarah and brad are trying to conceive for two years, once they adopted and tried they got a baby. You give a rewarding stimulus, with this simple test you can see when this regulation starts emerging. 40 years later they followed up with the kids to see how they did in their later life. Children in high restraint scored better sat scores, and a better working memory over people with low restraint. People in the low restraint were exposed to drug use, divorce, bmi 40 years later. How do you ask research questions to pre verbal human. Babies just like adults like looking at novel stimuli. If it is shown the same people over and over they will become bored. Test #2 - different lines the baby will be more interested. Our favourite thing to look at is human faces. The earliest you can test/study babies is 3-4 months.
