PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Egocentrism, Psychopathology, Object Permanence
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Sweet, salty, fatty required for metabolism infants like. Sour, bitter usually indicate something that you don"t need that could be poisonous infants. Almost all of piaget"s theories have been challenged to some degree. Movie human development: the first 2 years. Can detect changes, discriminate between stimuli, remember a stimulus as a result of habituation and dishabituation. Habituation probably the simplest form of memory and learning. Infants become bored/habituated to stimulus that is no longer novel. Vision is least developed sense in an infant and they rely more heavily on other 4 senses. Taste sweet, sour, salty, bitter, fatty dislike. Infants prefer complex shapes over simple shapes and prefer faces to other shapes. 6 steps to learning: random manipulation, gross exploration, minute examination, practice, experiment, use information. Infants will manipulate objects motorically and orally and then will explore it further building a schema when they are bored with it they"ll try to manipulate it in a different way.
