PSYCO105 Lecture : Individual And Social Behaviour.doc

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO105
• Professor: Jennifer Passey

Document Summary

First 18-24 months after birth: time of most rapid developmental change, babies sensory systems all function at birth, babies not only respond to stimuli but do so selectively, in ways that seem well designed for learning. Babies look longer at new stimuli: babies look at new patterns intently at first and then less and less over time. Why: they have more to learn from new stimuli than from old stimuli, they must perceive the difference between the new and old stimuli and recall having seen the old ones before, ex. 1 day olds perceive the difference between checkerboards with different sized squares. Infants show a special interest in aspects of the environment that they can control: ex. 2 month olds smiled and attended much more to a mobile that moved in response to their own movements than to ones that they could not control: ex.