PSYA02H3 Lecture 6: Jan 21- Lecture 6.docx
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Real life social networking: humans have gotten as far as we have because we are intensely social animals, want relationships, need to feel like we are loved, gain power through connections, this desire for social relations is present at birth, and is bi directional, as represented both by maternal instincts and via specific behaviors emitted by the infant, sucking(cid:224) both for food and comfort, cuddling(cid:224) comfort seems to signal security, crying(cid:224) teaching parents through negative reinforcement, at around 5weeks, bond between mother and baby goes both ways. Social interactions in infants: humans acquire a great deal of social information from the nonverbal cues provided by others, human face is a major source of nonverbal cues and babies attend preferentially to faces almost from birth, movement of facial muscles is critical to interaction, still face experiments dramatically show how important these cues are.
