PSYC 101 Chapter 1: Reading Response 1 Notes
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Psyc101 reading response 1 notes: the moral life of babies by paul bloom. If the revealed number of objects do not match what is expected, babies look for longer: babies are distressed when people stop moving compared to when an object stops moving. What is considered moral: everywhere, people have some sense of right and wrong, babies can feel sympathy: sad when someone cries, sooth others who are sad with strokes and touching, nice(cid:374)ess does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) you have a (cid:373)oral co(cid:373)pass. Moral-baby experiments: 1) helping and hindering, children watched animated movies of geometrical characters with faces red ball would try to go up a hill. Green triangle (hinderer) would not: showed babies (9 12 months old) where the ball either approached the square or the triangle.
