PSYCH 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Joint Attention, Teddy Bear, Animacy
24 Apr 2017
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Lecture 19 november 3: before you get to having social interactions, you have to divide the world into animate (alive) and inanimate (not alive, prerequisite to any social cognition. Intentionality detection - you automatically have a sense that something is alive - based on motion cues. French caucasians were better at discriminating caucasian faces, asians would be better at discriminating asian faces, and asians who grew up in france are better at discriminating. Since they do not have as much experience with asian faces, they are not as good at discriminating them. Attenuating the other race effect: 3 months olds needed very little time to overcome it, 6 month olds needed 70 minutes of exposure and 8 months needed over 100 minutes. Voice may be more important than faces in children"s social categorization. Language is more important than race: 10 month olds will accept a toy from someone speaking their language rather than someone speaking a different language.
