Discuss some of the important points of social competence and a baby's ability to imitate behavior
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Research from the late 1970s suggests that babies are able to imitate a behavior modeled by an adult if the behavior was something that the infant already performed spontaneously. Psychologist Tiffany Field reported that infants could discriminate between basic facial expression such as happiness, sadness, and surprise. Subsequent research has disproved some of this in that it was found that babies could not demonstrate imitative skills consistently, and that they could only produce a single imitative movement such as sticking out the tongue, which may actually be more of an exploratory action. Aspects of newborns' behavior act as forerunners for more formal types of social interactions when they grow and develop.
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Professor Wyler has obtained a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of violence in film on attitudes towards aggression among teenagers. He would like to study the effects in a range of socio-economic settings, from impoverished to very wealthy communities. Should he obtain approval from his institutional review board? Why or why not? Discuss potential ethical
issues that he should consider related to research in an impoverished community. What will be an ideal response?
Max refuses to pay his income tax because he believes that the government uses taxes for poor purposes. Most notably, he is opposed to the use of tax funds to support war efforts, because he doesn't believe that violence is an acceptable way to solve problems. He is willing to go to jail for his belief. Max is best classified as being in Kohlberg's _____ level of moral development
a. premoral b. preconventional c. conventional d. postconventional