PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Subjective Constancy, Visual Acuity, Binocular Disparity
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See if the infants have a preference for one over the other: habituation: repeatedly presenting an infant with a given stimulus until objects at a time the response declines. They cannot track even slowly moving objects smoothly until 2 to 3 months of age. Infants prefer attractive faces: from birth they look longer at faces that are judged by adults to be highly attractive than at faces judged to be less attractive, interact more positively with people with attractive faces. Includes their general knowledge about the world: depth perception. Baby reaches to the longer side of a trapezoidal window: this behavior indicates that the baby sees it as the nearer, and hence more readily reachable, side of a regular window. Contingency relation: young infants learned within minutes that kicking their leg would cause the mobile to move in an interesting way, observational learning. Cognitive abilities cognitive abilities: knowledge, thought, reasoning matter of debate.
