PSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontal Lobe, Noam Chomsky, Depth Perception
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Equal to adults: focusing by 2 months, color vision by 4 months, visual activity by 6 months. Depth perception: motion: 3-4 weeks, binocular: 2-3 months, pictorial: 6-7 months. Vision: depth perception and independent movement. New process for scooting, crawling, walking: visual cliff experiment. Pattern perception: prefer complexity over simplicity, contrast sensitivity. Infants seek stable features in a changing environment. Substage 1: re exive schemes: birth to 1 month, foundation. Substage 2: primary circular reactions: 1-4 months, voluntary control, centered around self needs. Substage 3: secondary circular reactions: 4-8 months, attention turns outward, manipulating the environment. Substage 4: coordination of secondary circular reactions: 8-12 months, object permanence, goal-direct behavior. Substage 5: tertiary circular reactions: 12-18 months, repetition with variation, experimentation. Substage 6: mental representation: 18 months -2 years, develop internal images/concepts, thought experiment. Wednesday, january 25, 2017: deferred imitation, make-believe. Preoperational stage: 2-6 years, signi cant increase in representational/symbolic activity.
