PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Visual Acuity, Subjective Constancy, Color Vision
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Chapter 5 seeing, thinking, and doing in infancy. Sensation: the processing of basic information from the external world by the sensory receptors in the sense organs (eyes, ears, skin, etc. ) and brain. However, by 2 months of age, infants" color vision is similar to that of adults. Visual scanning: with a simple figure like a triangle, infants younger than 2 months old look almost exclusively at one corner. Motion as cue: this display could be perceived either as two pieces of a rod moving on each end of a block of wood or as a single rod moving back and forth behind the block. Importantly, adults perceive displays of this type the latter way. After habituating to the display, the infants were shown the two test displays in the below graph: a whole rod and a rod broken into two pieces.
