HDF 351 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Habituation, Ontogeny, Dishabituation

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 351
• Professor: N Hazen- Swann

Document Summary

Quiz 6: infant social-cognitive development: text, ch. Still face experiment intentionally disrupts the normal course of interaction by asking an adult, typically the mother, to assume a still face and not to respond to the normal social bids of the infant. This disruption often leads to sadness and upset on the part of the infant. Infants typically show more distress than when the adult physically leaves the interaction altogether. Joint attention when two people, such as a child and adult attend to an object or event at the same time. Gaze following is one example of a successful response to a bid for joint attention and one that infants can accomplish in the first few days of life. Around 10 months, infants also understand gaze in third-party interactions. When observing two other people interaction with either mutual or averted gaze, infants demonstrate that they expect social partners to look at each other when conversing.