PSYC 391 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Universal, Psych, Tangled
18 Mar 2017
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Midterm: 30 multiple choice, 1 essay question worth 10 points. Mehr et al, 2016: examine the hypothesis that there"s social information in a song, we know that infants get social information from other cues ( and show a selective preference): People who produce ids (infant directed speech) Do they also get social information from song: in other words. 3 forms of song production: live from a parent in the home, toy (activated by a parent in the home, novel adult in the lab or live video at home. Experiments (5): 1: parents learn of the two songs; infants are tested using selective attention test (needs explaining playing song a or song b). Infants showed a pref for familiar song: that means that there is selective preference, 2: song presented via toy. Infants showed no pref for familiar song: means its not just about exposure, 3: song presented via experimenter in lab and skype.
