PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orienting Response, Emotion Recognition, Motor Skill
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Sensation: info received by sense organs and transmission of that information to the brain ex. Someone looks to see which image the chimp looks at more. This is what the chimp can see. Giving children the choice to look at two things: can the baby tell that they are different, see whether the babies can tell if the images are different, like complex stimuli. Habituation/dishabituation: present infant with some stimulus continuously until the baby gets bored (habituation, then show baby another stimulus, see whether the baby shows interest in the novel stimuli (dishabituation) Operant conditioning technique: condition people to do a certain things with rewards, train baby to turn head to a note. If the baby knows the difference between notes they wont turn their head on the wrong note. If they don"t know they"ll just turn their head randomly.
