Question

1.     Prompt 1: How does social referencing work? Can you give an example? When is social referencing useful and when is it not? Why would you not want to use social referencing when responding to a toddler who has just taken a spill?

2.     Prompt 2: Can you give an example of a cultural script? Do you have any cultural scripts? What are they?

3.     Prompt 3: Make up a scene involving the RERUN process of problem solving.

Answer 1

Answer:
Social referencing refers to the tendency of a person to look to a significant other in an ambiguous situation in order to obtain clarifying information.Infant starts social referencing from age 8 to 10 months.
social referencing is used by babies in many situations.
For example: If he/she fell down in the floor. Toddler first look at the face of his mother before crying.
It is not useful to use social referencing when responding to a toddler who has just taken a spill because it may convey bad massage to him. It may leads to social fear in fodder.