PSYC 2290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amniotic Fluid, Endorphins, Habituation

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: proulx

Document Summary

Determine how people perceive, select, modify and organize stimulation from the environment. Studied in infants using habituation: babies who habituate faster tend to be more intelligent. Sweet tastes are preferred and bitter tastes are disliked. Certain odor preferences are present at birth such as bananas and chocolate. Sensitivity to touch and pain at birth (much more sensitive pain receptors than. Influences emotional development adults: premature babies are even more sensitive, male babies are more sensitive than female babies, when babies are 1. Given something sweet they are able to manage pain better. Releases endorphins: babies brains need to learn to do this (attachment: gentle touch = positive responses. Used to investigate the world (touch and mouth: more coordination: used fingers. Infants can distinguish different types of sounds and languages. At 4-7 months they organize sounds into meaningful patterns. Can detect sounds not in their native language. 6-8 months screen out sounds not heard in their native language.