PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ball Pit, Clothespin, Situation Two

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Social norms program us to become altruistic. Children are selfish and it upon society to change that. Are they willing to help the person: one said that the child wants to keep it, the toddler actually helped and gave back the item to the owner. Contoroled condition if the peg is forcefully thrown, the child will not go and pick it up. Situation 3: the child watching the person not completing his goal: experimenter sits on the right of the table and the 18 month on the left of the table. Each time the object fails to stack, the child notices the reaction of the experimenter and notices that they are upset and therefore completes the task for them by stacking the item. Did not want to build towers had to do with the experimenters. The child notices this, and walks over to the box by the flap and.