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Question 1

What are the two conditons for Study 3?

Answer 1

Alternating condition, the infants observed alternating pairs of 3 month old males and 3 month old females.

Grouped condition, infants saw all the 3 month female slides together & all the 3 month males slides together

Question 2

How were the pictures randomized?

Answer 2

Order of set presentation, order of slide pair presentation within sets, & order of slide pairing across subjects so that a particular slide of an attractive face could be paired with any slide of an unattractive face of the same sex

Question 3

Results for Study 3?

Answer 3

Infants looked longer at the attractive faces than the unattractive faces

Question 4

Why did the findings contradict what most thought about cultural transmission of standards of beauty?

Answer 4

Perhaps “ethnically diverse faces possess both distinct and similar, perhaps even universal, structural features.”

Question 5

Is attractiveness Nature or Nurture?

Answer 5

Maybe beauty is (in some part) nature NOT nurture
C. Prototypical faces
1. It would seem beautiful faces are prototypical: an original form serving as a basis or standard for other forms

Question 6

Why might prototypical faces be evolutionarily adaptive?

Answer 6

Individuals closer to the mean might be less likely to have genetic mutations

An average face has mathematically average trait values for a population
Several theorists have proposed that average traits reflect developmental stability