{"id":8077,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/graded_signal\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:47","slug":"graded_signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/graded_signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Graded signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This theory proposes that an infant&#8217;s cry conveys the degree of the infant&#8217;s distress or state of arousal, but not its specific cause. &nbsp;It contrasts with the idea of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/raminader.com\/PDFs%20Uploaded\/Content%20-%20Infant%20Crying%20in%20Context.pdf\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/raminader.com\/PDFs%20Uploaded\/Content%20-%20Infant%20Crying%20in%20Context.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cry types<\/a>&#8216;, where the audible, acoustic features of a cry are assumed to vary so as to signal its particular cause (e.g., &#8216;hunger&#8217; versus &#8216;anger&#8217; versus &#8216;pain&#8217; cries). &nbsp;According to graded signal theory, parents and others use contextual information to work out the cause.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"arousal\">Arousal<\/a>, <a href=\"behavioral_state\">Behavioral state<\/a>, <a href=\"crying\">Crying<\/a>, <a href=\"crying_peak\">Crying peak<\/a>, Fussing   <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This theory proposes that an infant&#8217;s cry conveys the degree of the infant&#8217;s distress or state of arousal, but not its specific cause. &nbsp;It contrasts with the idea of &#8216;cry types&#8216;, where the audible, acoustic features of a cry are assumed to vary so as to signal its particular cause (e.g., &#8216;hunger&#8217; versus &#8216;anger&#8217; versus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/graded_signal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Graded signal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}