PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dishabituation, Habituation
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If they get too complex, they revert to lower level. Building object permanence: building object categories: units of mental organisation, reference: using the word dog and apply to other dogs. Inference: infer a dog will behave like other dogs. Beyond object permanence: building object categories: statistical regularities: constructivist account. Detecting feature correlations younger & cohen constructivist: novel features should elicit dishabituation: looking longer. If learned the feature correlations, then the uncorrelated exemplar (familiar feature but violates correlation) should also elicit dishabituation. In second group: if they learned the correlation, they treated it as novel. If familiar, they learned the features but not the combination: novel is surprising, but uncorrelated and correlated are treated as familiar: learnt the features but not the correlations. Results: 4 months old only dishabituate to novel feature: do not learn correlations, 7 month olds dishabituate to uncorrelated and novel test examples, 7 month olds learn the correlations.
