PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dishabituation, Intelligence Quotient, Language Acquisition

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Lixia Yang

Document Summary

Lecture overview: concepts: sensation, perception, learning, early controversies, sensation and perception, intermodal perception, basic learning. Concepts and definitions: sensation: sensory receptors detect and process basic information from external world, perception: organization and interpretation of sensory input, learning: behaviors change as a result of experience. Empiricists: (nurture) infants must learn to interpret sensations. William james (1890) blooming , buzzing confusion . Nativists: (nature) innate basic perceptual abilities: differentiation vs. enrichment. Integrated and independent of experience, can be interpreted on its own. Children explore and learn to detect distinctive features. Sensation and perception: vision and visual perception, hearing and auditory perception, taste and smell, touch, temperature, and pain. Vision: least mature sense in newborns, movement, colors, brightness, visual patterns, poor visual acuity, blurry, require sharper visual contrasts. Early pattern preference: early preference for. Pattern perception: what defines an object, subjective contour, infants detect static objects defined by illusory contours at around 7 months.