PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Infant, Dishabituation, Habituation
3 Jan 2019
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6 sense: hearing, touch, taste, smell and kinesthetic feedback. The pickup, detection by our sensory receptors - the skin, eyes, ears, nose, mouth and muscles of information/stimuli in the outside world and transmitting it to the brain. Hearing - sensation occurs as waves of pulsating air - collected by the outer air and transmitted through the bones of the inner ear to cocklier nerve. Vision - rays of light that are collected by the pupils and focused on the retina. Mcfarlen - unborn child responds to sound - just before the fetus was born - when the mom was about the give birth, mcfarlen inserted a microphone into the uterus and placed it near the fetuses ear. Then he would create a loud noise near the abdomen and record what is on the microphone and record the fetal heart rate considered a sure sign that the neonate could hear. Develop quickly for the preference of the mother"s voice.
