PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 Sensation and Perception
18 May 2016
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Perceptions: interpretation of info received by sense organs. Field of sensation/perception is a key battleground for nativism/empiricism debate . Nativist babies are born with a catalogue of things that they know (nature) Empiricist experiences are important for a baby; i. e. they don"t understand death. Babies prefer to look at pictures of their mom rather than women who look like their mom. Babies aren"t born knowing what their mom looks like, they need the experience to see her/what she looks like/recognize her, they had to experience it once. Maybe they were born with the preparedness to know her. We have to develop clever methods of getting babies to talk to us. Baby in a box, researcher looks into box to see if baby likes what it sees (i. e. show the half in lines or inch lines and see what they like) Babies reliably become bored with same stimulus presented over time (habituation)
