PSYC14H3 Lecture 4: Impact of Culture on Socialization and Development
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"plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits. What is the evidence for cultural specialization: babies discriminate their parents from strangers, babies discriminate between ingroup and outgroup members, babies show preferential attention to ingroup members. Newborns prefer their mothers" voices (decasper & fifer, 1980) (study): participants, 10 neonates (5 male, 5 female). Seuss): babies control the voice heard by changing their rate of sucking, condition #1: Ibi < median = female stranger"s voice: condition #2: Mother-stranger face discrimination (field et al. , 1980) (study): participants, 48 neonates (24 female), mean age = 45 hours (ranged between 22 and 95 hours), procedure, conditions:
