PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habituation
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Children told you can have 1 marshmallow now, or 2 marshmallows later. Those who waited called high restraint, those who didn"t, low restraint. 40 years later high restraint children had higher sat scores, better working memory. Low restraint children had higher bmi, higher drug use, higher divorce rate, lower sat scores. Babies get bored if you show them the same thing again and again, and they"re excited by new stimuli. People are always shoving their faces at babies. Babies just like faces, there is an innate face preference. Took low income families and brought them up to average. They had higher graduation rates, higher adult health. Thinking we could give anyone, more and more and more and it would always be better. Kittens had their eyes sewn shut for the 1st 5 weeks of their lives and then never regained normal sight. Kittens that had normal sight, then lost it for 5 weeks, did regain normal sight.
