PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Visual Acuity, Color Vision, Mozart Effect
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First behaviour to adapt are reflexes, involuntary responses to environmental stimuli. Abnormal reflexes can be indicators for identifying hearing or visual problems. Tells us that human behaviour is organized and predictable and also that internal forces play a role. Newborn: sleeps 70% of the day in short and long naps. 8 week olds: sleeps more during night and less during the day. Different among cultures and also the sleeping arrangements. Illustrates how the infants biorhythm changes to adapt to the new environment: represent central ideas of family relationships. Rem sleep: rapid eye movements, fluctuating heart rate and blood pressure, purpose is unknown but if awakened repeatedly irritability, disorganized, infants have a lot of rem sleep but decreased to 20% by adulthood. Reason: autostimulation theory stimulates the brain and cns. Mothers are better at distinguishing than fathers. Early months: crying is related to physiological distress. Many people believed before that rushing to soothe an infant will spoil the child.
