PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Amygdala
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Infants prefer facelike paterns to complex but non-facelike paterns, and prefer atracive faces over unatracive ones: these seem innate. They prefer face and voice of caregiver over stranger, prefer sounds in naive language, and prefer faces of members of own race: these seem learned, preferences shaped by innate mechanisms and by experience. Use cauion when using looking ime as measure because it can also indicate violaion of expectancy, intrigue, and familiarity. Intermodal matching methods show that infants also look longer at congruent simuli (look longer at female face when hearing a female voice: they also look longer at atracive faces when hearing pleasant sounds. Ingroup preference emerges as soon as in/out group disincion can be made. Usually adult members of minoriies show weak or no implicit ingroup preferences: due to social learning about relaive status of one"s group.
