PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Habituation, Auditory Illusion, Mcgurk Effect
18 Jan 2017
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Cultural influences on perception: infants can hear all range of sounds, phonemes from all different, begin to tune out all unused phonemes languages phonemes, only pay attention to phonemes from their native languages. 8 to 10 months old start pruning/tuning out foreign. English has a lot of (cid:494)r(cid:495) and (cid:494)l(cid:495)s; absent in japanese. Can(cid:495)t hear distinction = can(cid:495)t pronounce it. Classical/operant conditioning infant is baited to turn head when a toy bunny makes noise/coincides with a new phoneme being read: werker experiment. Eventually, the bunny is removed, baby still turns head when a new phoneme is read. Will the baby turn head after an in detectable hindi phoneme is read: infants know all the phonemes in the universe, they have to learn to stop differentiating some. Perceiving the world involves more than one sense, which are. Infants are distressed at seeing mom talking behind a then integrated to facilitate learning.
