PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psych, Habituation, Classical Conditioning
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Changes or differences is physiological responses: heart rate and eeg (electroencephalogram) Changes or differences in behavioural responses: visual tracking, high amplitude sucking. Procedures for measuring infant behaviour: habituation procedures, preference methods. Infant is given special pacifier that responds to sucking rate. Change in sucking rate can be detected. Can access stimuli by sucking at a particular rate. Habituate infant to stimuli (by repeat exposure) Moms read dr. seuss (or other stories) prenatally. Babies preferred the familiar rhyme story to unfamiliar rhyme as demonstrated by high- amplitude sucking. Can demonstrate learning through classical conditioning: newborns can associate sounds with objects. Can demonstrate learning operant conditioning: newborns can learn to move mobiles, etc. Can do simple observational learning: imitation. Can learn from facial cues: e. g. , detection of depth. The role of biology: don"t crawl innate. The role of learning: crawl when just learned to crawl, so not innate, crawl depending on mom"s facial expression.
