Psych 105 Liberman UCSB Final questions with correct answers

What is the takeaway from the baby head-turning experiment? - Answer Babies turned their neck, working harder to see a face on a paddle over random designs. Suggests babies have a preference for human faces, are ready to form relationships What is the still-face paradigm? - Answer -Mom's don a neutral express and stop interacting -Babies respond by doing everything they can to reignite the social interaction, eventually cry takeaway: babies not only want to be near with caregivers, they also want to socially interact with them How does skin-to-skin contact affect epigenetics? - Answer -more socially adept, successful outcomes What are 3 possible mechanisms for attachment? - Answer Freud - association b/w caregiver and pleasure Harlow - meet emotional needs and provide physical comfort Bowlby - evolution predicts that attachment helps us survive What was the significance of the Harlow Monkey experiments? - Answer -orphaned monkey's were raised by either a wire or cloth mother -babies chose to spend 17 hours a day on cloth mother and less than 1 hour on wire mother