PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cocktail Party, Memory Consolidation, Taste
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Video human development the first 2 years. Cognition (intellectual activity) gaining and using knowledge. Schuster every other task is based on the skill of how to learn. What they stare at and for how long baby"s learning. Habituation waning of a response to repeatedly presented stimulus: dishabituation when baby becomes bored and stops staring and attends to a new stimulus. 3 things learnt from habituation and dishabituation - detect changes, discriminate between stimuli, and remember a stimulis. Cognitively they learn what they are bored by, when they"ve seen something and are not interested in it anymore, when something new presented they are interested (sensitization) Perception, memory and problem solving 3 key facets of cognitive development: perception: receiving and analyzing info by 5 senses. Baby"s actively choose what to look at (contrast, motion, light, sound, contours, colors etc) Learning how to learn: random manipulation gross exploration minute examination practice (develops cause and effect principle) experimentation exploration.
