Exam 11: Developmental Social Neuroscience

The study of Grossman et al. (2010) used near infrared spectroscopy to study voice processing in the superior temporal sulcus of infants. What did the study find?

What do Cook et al. (2014) suggest is responsible for the development of mirror neurons?

Who conducted an influential study of emotional contagion (crying) in infants?

Which of the following statements about human brain development is true?

Fabes et al. (1994) measured heart rate increases and effective comforting behaviour in children in response to a crying infant. What were their findings?

The inability to recollect the earliest years of our lives (childhood amnesia) covers which period, approximately?

Which of the following statements concerning infant-directed speech or 'motherese' is true?

According to the theory of Ernst, Pine, & Hardin (2006) what are the effects of structural changes in the adolescent brain on motivational mechanisms?

At what age do children typically pass the mark test (i.e. rubbing an unknown mark off their body after discovering it in a mirror)?

What were the findings of the ERP study of infant gaze detection by Johnson et al. (2005)?

What did the functional imaging study of infant face processing by Tzuorio-Mazoyer et al. (2002) show?

What were the conclusions of the study of early altruism by Warneken & Tomasello (2008)?

What were the general conclusions of the fMRI studies of 'mentalizing' during adolescence of Wang et al. (2006) and Blakemore et al. (2007)?

Who conducted influential studies on newborn facial mimickry?

What were the findings of the joint attention study of Brooks & Meltzoff (2005)?

According to the study of Onishi & Baillargeon (2005) at what age do infants/children have an (implicit) understanding of false belief?

Tasks showing that children under 4 years old can understand false beliefs (e.g. Onishi & Baillargeon, 2005) have relied on which measure?

According to Gardner & Steinberg (2005) what are the characteristics of risk-taking in adolescence?

Who has argued that language learning is gated by the social brain?

In biology, the term 'instinct' is normally taken to refer to what?