PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Hard Wired, Object Permanence, 18 Months
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We are hardwired to b eattracted to these tastes-salt, sour, bitter. Language is hardwired, capablity to acquire language, geneticly inherited, can evolve. We are hard wired to acquire a behaviour but if donot have exposure in the crtical period it is never acquired. In infancy-habituation-staring longer at unique, new or impossible situations. Can tell what they learned and are adaptive to. Lack of ability to habituate is a disorder-autism. Ex/visual cliff-infants that adapt and learn it symbolically-milestone so hardwired. Not hardwired because you have to fall first. 13-19: adolescence piaget explained how we adapted to our environment from infancy to adolescence. He proposed: that by adapting, you build schemas right from infancy. Freud was the first to say stages, if you cant pass stage 1, you can"t get to stage 3, you get stuck. Piaget"s theory: schemes: psychological structures- organized ways of making sense of experience. scripts basic cognitive structures, help us make sense of our world.
