PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Observational Learning
8 Jan 2017
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Species speci c--pertaining to just one species, but often the communication involves signals shared by many types of animals. Many animals would lay on their backs, exposing bellies and throats, as a way of communicating that they lost the ght. Humans have various ways of communicating their status and intentions through language and body position. Babies start smiling at a very young age. First smiles--about 1 month old; directed towards people occur about a month or so after. Behaviour of smiling is something that humans do without a history of observational. Behaviour of smiling is species general--observable in virtually all members of our learning species. American actors were photographed while conveying emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. Photos shown to member sof isolated tribe in new guinea, and individuals were asked to pick the emotion label that matched each photograph.
