PSYC 218 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Operant Conditioning, Cortisol, Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
24 Jun 2015
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Naturalistic observation: view based on every day behavior. Experimental conditions: things that are changed in the environment/experiment to see if there is any behavior change. Control conditions: nothing is changed in environment (potentially given placebo) Head tracking & neonatal behavioral assessment scale: infants will turn their heads (as natural response) to an interesting auditory response. If you play mother"s voice on one side and stranger"s voice on another side, they will turn towards mother"s voice: stages of arousal and calm; orientation to stimulus. If something distressing in the environment occurs, they are expected to get upset; when the stimulus is taken away, they will get less discouraged. Habituation: we can tell when an infant is paying attention/when they get bored of a stimulus, they prefer to look at novel stimuli, show a familiar stimuli followed by novel stimulus; re- engaged attention.
