PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visual Acuity, Binocular Disparity, Depth Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Mastery of motor skills involves acquiring increasingly complex systems of action. Separate abilities blend together, each cooperating with others to produce more effective ways of exploring and controlling the environment: esther thelen. Each new skill is affected by: central nervous system development, body"s movement capabilities, goals the child has in mind, environmental supports for the skills, the importance of each changes over time. Differentiation distinguishing and mastering individual motions. Integration combining intricate motions in proper sequence into coherent working whole. Individual skills are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific needs. Skills to not always transfer between environments/abilities, postures need to learn: new organization and new system. Perception is a process by which the brain receives, selects, modifies, and organizes incoming sensory input from physical stimulation, a process of organizing and interpreting sensory information. Research methods for infants: preferences (how infants respond to stimuli) Observe and record infants" responses to the stimuli.