PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Twin, Depth Perception, Childhood Amnesia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

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Higher level of this hormone was predicting a better maternal attachment. Preferential looking technique: infants are shown 2 things; they look at the one that interests them the longest. Vision: with preferential looking techniques to determine the infant"s visual acuity. Fox: stereogram for depth perception in which one view of an image is shown to one eye and another view to the other; this information is then converted into depth perception. If infants can"t see this disparity information to perceive depth, they will just see random dots. When infants are presented with sounds in their right or left ear, they turn in the direction of the sound. De casper and fifer: operant conditioning to determine what sounds 2 day old infants could remember: newborns alter their sucking rates to hear their mother"s voices more often. In adults, different brain regions respond to speech and non speech.