PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading #6 and #8: Nonverbal Communication, Scientific American

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

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Original place of publication: scientific american: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) At what age in the early developmental process do animals and people learn to perceive depth: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) Study did not prove that humans" ability to perceive depth is something they are born with. Depending on the animal, the answer to the original question can vary: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area) In a subsequent study, the infants" results shoed a decrease in heart rate when some of the factors of the experiment changed. We learned that the method of nonverbal communication that infants use to determine their social behavior is called social referencing . It is unclear whether or not the researchers actually proved or disproved their hypothesis.