CPSY 4343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pacifier, Relate, Bassinet
12 May 2020
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Meltzoff and moore imitation of facial and manual gestures by human neonates. The ability to act on a basis of an abstract representation of a perceptually absent stimulus becomes a starting point for psychological development in infancy and not its culmination . The basis of a number of theories of learning and development. 12 infants (16-21 days old) repeated measure design. Pacifier in the mouth for 30 seconds. 150 s baseline during which behavior is measured. Pacifier, display (e. g. tongue protrusion) until watched for 15 s (pacifier prevents exp from readministering the stimulus until random beh from the infant coincided) Experimenter assumes passive face, removes pacifier, 150 s test. More tp after tp than mo and mo after mo than tp. 12/23 cases tongue protrusion higher than in control. When no effect, the duration of modelling was 40 sec or less. Increase following inhibition (orienting) during the modelling.
