Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Almost Surely, Habituation, Arch Linux

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Perceptual development: systematic age-related changes in the interpretation of sensory information. Empiricism: branch of philosophy that maintains experience is the source of human knowledge. (locke) Nativism: branch of philosophy that maintains knowledge is largely in-born. (darwin) Same physical difference between tests, but test 1 crosses the category boundary. 4 month olds dishabitate to test 1 but not test 2. So, infants at 4 months do perceive colours the same as adults (same category boundaries) After 2 months, infants clearly see shapes. Young infants exhibit part-based perception. (before 2 months) Dehabituated to the pac-man figures and even less to squares, which means infants see shapes (the triangle) *- so, before 2 months, infants just see parts (part-based perception) After 2 (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths, see (cid:862)(cid:449)hole(cid:863) parts, (cid:449)here e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g is see(cid:374) as a (cid:449)hole. Adults perceive objects as whole things (not just an object, but also note the colour, hardness, subject to gravity,). Perceive many things about objects other than just how they look.