Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Depth Perception, Frontal Lobe, Binocular Vision

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Left frontal lobe more involved in positive emotions, right in negative. More activity in left when watching happy films, more in right for sad/disgusting films. Nature maturation vs. nurture learning. Normative: typical sequence of change, look for consistency, methodology is cross-sectional. Individual: consistency not there, look and individual, methodology is longitudinal. 100 200 b neurons at birth. Increase in weight (350 1400 g) due to glial cells and myelination: frontal lobe develops last. Very much like adult: suck faster fro sweet liquid, reject salty liquid, pleasant expression for bananas, frown for rotten eggs, suggests . Respond to wide variety of sounds: prefer complex sounds, especially sensitive to sounds in range of human voice. 1st few days: turn head toward sounds, discriminate sound sequences. 1st day: gaze at nearby objects and people, visual tracking, turn head to keep objects in view, visual accommodation not well developed, but can focus 18 to 38 cm, visual acuity about 20/600.