COGS 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Garage Sale, Biological Motion, Kin Recognition
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Basis for deciding how to treat disabilities. To know a trait, know how it emerges. Example walking emerges in various ways but every infant first starts with alternating leg flexion. Kin recognition, playing, hunting and foraging, mating, aggression, communication. Evolved because it is evolutionarily beneficial to protect their own offspring. Babies can recognize mothers breast milk from sense of smell. Babies can identify mother"s voice from before they were born. What are some practical methods used to study babies and their cognitive. Watch how long a baby stays interested in something. Babies look longer at novel or unexpected events than at more predictable ones, and experimenters can use this behavior to fi gure out what babies expect to happen. Habituation - responding less to a familiar stimuli. Dishabituation - respond to an old stimulus as if it were new again. Babies look longer at non biological motions after habituating to biological motion.
