PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Smile, Syntactic Bootstrapping, Speech Perception
Document Summary
Audibility curves for infants and adults are parallel ! Linking what you feel to what you see ! Emotion: subjective rxns to the environment, usually accompanied by some form or. Infants are highly emotional; they express very openly ! Smiling and laughter are the rst expressions of pleasure ! physiological arousal and expressed in some form of behaviour ! Infants show preferences for human faces ! Special smiles for mothers = duchenne smiles ! Not all babies smile with equal frequency; individual, cultural, and sex differences exist ! A wide array of stimuli can make baby laugh ! Learning perspective (focus on how experience drives a particular behaviour)! Individual emotional expressions result from individual experiences ! Help in achieving foals and adapting to the environment ! Emotional signals (social cues) guide behaviours ! Interest, distress, disgust, and contentment (at birth)! Anger, sadness, joy, surprise and fear (emerge 2-7 months)! Initially, only expressed when adult is present! interpreting others" emotions !
