PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visual Acuity, Teratology, Mary Ainsworth
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Explain how preferential looking can be used to measure infants" perception. Describe how motor development affects visual development: characterize the first two stages of piaget"s theory of cognitive development. Know how to test a child for theory of mind understanding in two ways. Describe the importance of attachment and a technique for measuring it. Perceptual development: remember: perceptual development begins in utero, but the perceptual experiences beginning after birth are much richer, perception = organization and interpretation of the sensory information into coherent. Sensation = sensory organs" detection of physical signals in the environment understanding of objects, individuals, events. Measuring infants" perception: when you visit the optometrist, how does he/she measure your visual activity and colour vision, verbal report, how is it that we know what infants are able to see. Preferential looking: how is it that we know what infants are able to see, one of the most powerful methods that we have available is preferential looking.
