Botero, Maria (2009) More than Designing an Ethogram, The Implications of Choosing a Methodology in Primatology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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All methodologies used to characterize mother-infant interaction includes mother, infant, and other social factors. The chief difference is how each methodology selects certain elements of this interaction as relevant. I will argue that in the context of the mother-infant interaction a methodology’s results depend on the model’s presuppositions on the nature of communication. These presupposition affects the kinds of questions asked, the kind of data obtained, and how these data are analyzed. I will show this by contrasting two different analysis of separation studies in infant primates: what I call the Ecological-Linear approach vs. Dynamic System Theory (DST) approach.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Botero, Maria
Keywords:	Mother-infant interaction, primates, observational methods, communication
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Anthropology
Depositing User:	Maria Botero
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2010
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:19
Item ID:	5234
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Psychology Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Anthropology
Date:	2009
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5234

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