PSY210H5 Lecture 4: PSy210- Lecture 4 2017
12 Feb 2017
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Sensation detection of stimuli by the sensory receptors. Perception the interpretation of sensations in order to make them meaningful. Most infant testing methodologies are based on 3 assumptions: infants will attend/orient to stimuli they prefer, infants prefer to hear/see stimuli that they have heard/seen before (familiarization) presented stimulus. Will show preferences for familiar things: if they have been repeatedly exposed to a stimulus (to the point of boredom) then they should prefer the novel stimuli (habituation) Familiarization infant like things that they"ve had a little bit of exposure to. Habituation infants will react with less and less intensity to a repeatedly. E. g. , 20/40 means that you can see at 20 feet what someone with. Visual acuity sharpness of vision; the clarity with which fine details can. Newborns can see objects about 8-15 inches away quite sharply. In the first month of life infants visual acuity ranges from ___________ perfect vision can see at 40 feet.
