PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phrase (Music), Selective Perception, Endorphins

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Sensation: refers to the detection of sensory information. Perception: refers to interpretation of sensation: perception implies organization and understanding of meaning of sensations. Attention: refers to selective perception: focus on certain stimuli while ignoring others. Newborns: reflex responses to touch on mouth, palms, soles, genitals: later, exploratory mouthing, pleasurable touch releases endorphins. Sensitive to pain: pain can affect later behaviour, relieve pain with anesthetics, sugar, gentle holding. Prefer sweet tastes at birth: affected by mother"s diet during pregnancy. Recognize familiar words, natural phrasing in native language. Detect syllables that often occur together in the same word. Sensitive to voices and biologically prepared to learn language. Can locate odors and identify mother by smell from birth. Can hear a wide variety of sounds at birth. Unable to see long distances, focus clearly. Color vision improves in first two months. Brain development helps infants reach adult levels of vision. Scan environment and try to track interesting objects.