PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Depth Perception, Outlandish, Real Face
27 Jan 2016
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The development of skills taking in sensory info and then doing something with it: sensation: info received by sense organs (receiving info and getting it to where it needs to be) Eyes, ears, nose, mouth: perception: what you do with the info. Depth perception (how do you know you"re on the edge of a cliff and will fall off if you move one step closer: field of sensation/perception is a key battle ground for nativism/empiricism debate: Nativist arguments (what is native to you-nature) Babies can see pretty well when they"re born and have good. Hypothesis: we can learn a lot about baby"s sensory abilities by looking at what they prefer to look at. If most babies choose the same stimulus we know what babies like hearing womb: focus on all the skills babies have when they exit the. Skills they have already, don"t have to acquire. Empiricist argument (observation and collection of data-nurture)
