Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Habituation, Visual System, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Examines the changes in our biological, physical psychological and behavioral process as we age. There are 4 broad issues: nature vs. nurture, extent to which our development is the product of heredity (nature) or the product of environment (nature). How do they interact: roles of gene & environment, heredity, genetic transmission of physical and psychological traits from parents to children, chromosomes, threadlike colored bodies in nuclear of each cell; made up of dna. Rubella (german measles: can severely damage developing nervous system. Cohort: group born at the same time. Cross sectional: compare difference ages at the same time. Longitudinal: test same cohort at different times. Sequential: test several cohorts as they age. Tactile, auditory & chemical perceptual senses operating at birth. Orient to significant stimuli: will orient towards source of: Preferential looking procedure: measures how long infants looks at a stimulus, idea= newborns looks longer at a stimuli tbey find interesting, determine when detail become interesting, vision: