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What are the 4 main landmarks of early social cognition

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  1. Sensitivity to features of sentient beings
  2. Teleology and rationality
  3. Representational mind
  4. Refined complex introspection
2
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How old are children in the sensitivity to features of sentient beings landmark

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0-12 month

3
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How old are children in the teleology and rationality landmark

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9-18 months

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How old are children in the representational mind landmark

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3-5 years

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How old are children in the refined complex introspection landmark

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6+

6
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What are aspects of development of features to sentient beings

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  1. Babies are interested in faces

2. gaze

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What did Johnson find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

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Showed them either a face, a scrambled face or a blank face

Turn their head further and rotated eyes when shape was a face

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What was a follow up study to Johnson to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

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Infants looked more when a shape had a lot going on in the top half compared to the when there was a lot going on in the bottom half - looks more like a face

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What did Farroni (2013) find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

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Shown either a face or a moving wheel

Looked at both - older the infant more activation in areas of brain for face. Didn’t find it for the moving wheel

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How do social stimuli differ from non social stimuli

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  1. Social agents can move on their own
  2. Social agents can change direction without external influence
  3. Causal reactions can be delayed
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What did Spelke find to do with development of sensitivity to features of sentient beings

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Children looked more at action at a distance event (things move without touching) as it was surprising

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What is rationality

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State of being reasonable based on facts

13
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What is teleology

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Human actions have a definite end

14
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What did Gergely, Nádasdy, Csibra, Bíró (1995) find and do to with inferred action

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Children habituated to a ball jumping over a shape. Then shown the ball jumping over nothing

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What did Gergely, Nádasdy, Csibra, Bíró(1995) do and find to do with inferred action

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children shown ball jumping over wall to get to another ball. wall is then removed and shown ball going straight or jumping

9 and 12 month old looked longer when ball then jumps when wall is removed