The activity response of the infant to familiarity and sex of voice

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dc.contributor.authorSgro, Beverly Hustonen
dc.contributor.departmentChild and Family Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:40:28Zen
dc.date.adate2010-07-15en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:40:28Zen
dc.date.issued1974en
dc.date.rdate2010-07-15en
dc.date.sdate2010-07-15en
dc.description.abstractThis research investigated the effects of age, sex, male vs female voice, and unfamiliar vs familiar voice upon the infants body movements. The sample consisted of 40 middle-class infants, balanced according to sex, at four age levels -- 3, 6, 9, 12 months. Four tape-recorded stimulus conditions -- mother's voice, father's voice, female stranger’s voice, and male stranger's voice -- were presented to each infant. The body movements of the infants were recorded at one frame per second by an 8mm. camera. Analyses of variance were performed to determine any differences among the four stimulus conditions and control periods. The 12-month-old infants showed more activity to the father's voice than to the male stranger's voice or to the mother's voice. These subjects also showed more activity to the female stranger's voice than to the male stranger's voice. Female subjects were more active than male subjects to the unfamiliar voices on Trial 1. On Trial 2 females showed greater activity than males to the familiar voice. Females exhibited greater activity than males overall. Males showed greater activity than females to the cessation of the female voice and to the initiation of their father's voice. Results were discussed in terms of the infant's development as affected by sex of the infant and the cross-over effect found by Friedlander (1970).en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extent62 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-07152010-020116en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07152010-020116/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/43731en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1974.S49.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 21651749en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1974.S49en
dc.subject.lcshAuditory evoked responseen
dc.subject.lcshInfantsen
dc.titleThe activity response of the infant to familiarity and sex of voiceen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineChild and Family Developmenten
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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