PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Self-Awareness, Social Emotions, Visual Acuity

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Kendall Soucie

Document Summary

Nativism: the view that perceptual abilities are inborn. Empiricism: the view that perceptual abilities are learned. Infants are very sensitive to changes in temperature: refuse to suck on bottle when it is too hot, maintain body heat by becoming more active when room temperature drops. Perception of pain: cry from pain is unique from other types of crying, greater distress from needles at inoculation when very young as compared to 6 months, same response to circumcision. Touch: may be best developed of all, motion perception is clearly present, fine tuning takes place over time, most sensitive to touches on mouth, face, hands, feet, abdomen (calming response, important for developmental progress (kangaroo care) Smell: can differentiate own mother"s olfactory signature, preference for pleasant odours, can recognize the scent of their own amniotic fluid. 6-9 month old baby were placed on a visual cliff apparatus. Mothers coaxed their infants to crawl across the deep and shallow sides.