PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 18 Months, Empiricism, Monocular Vision
10 Nov 2015
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Definitions: sensation information received by sensory organs, perception interpretation of information received by sensory organs. Nature vs. nurture: field of sensation/perception is a key battleground for nativism/empiricism debate , nativist arguments. What is native to you nature. Babies can see pretty well when they are born, have really good hearing, and really good taste: empiricist arguments. Focus on skills that babies have when they exit the womb. Talk about what babies have to learn once they exit the womb: ex. Learning depth, locating sounds in space, etc: biological preparedness. Idea that when we see babies picking up skills quickly, they have a native or biological preparedness to quickly learn from their environment: ex. How to locate sounds in space they learn to do this quickly. Operant conditioning technique: train some creature to engage in a behaviour for a reward, ex.
