PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Binocular Disparity, Classical Conditioning, Stereopsis
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Sensation: sensory receptors detect and process basic info from external world. Learning: behaviours change as a result of experience. Empiricists: (nurture) infants must learn to interpret sensations. Integrated and independent of experience, can be interpreted on it"s own. Children explore and learn to detect distinctive features. Infants detect static objects defined by illusory contours at around 7 months. Size constancy: habituate to the same cube at different distances, perceived as the same (newborns) At 4 months: "common movements" (kellman & spelke, 1983) Optical expansion (looming or approaching): 1 month of age. Binocular disparity (binocular vision) stereopsis: 4 months of age. Monocular cues (pictorial cues): 6-7 months of age. 1 month old"s: heart rate decreases over the deep side, they can tell the difference, but no fear. New crawlers given experience with walkers or experienced crawlers won"t cross, with fear. Quickly lean to recognize words (4. 5 months: own name)
