HDFS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tabula Rasa, Dishabituation, Habituation
7 Nov 2016
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Perception the cognitive process of organizing, coordinating, and interpreting sensory information. John locke believe that newborns mind were blank slate. William james claimed that the mental experience of the infant was one great blooming, buzzing confusion. Robert fantz and the early work in testing visual preferences: peripheral looking technique technique used to test and the visual perception. It is consistently look longer at some patterns than at others, researchers infer that the infant can see a difference between the patterns: newborn babies prefer the following types of visual information: sharp color contrast. Habituation dishabituation research: habituation dishabituation technique used to infant perception. Infants are shown a stimulus repeatedly until they respond less or habituate to it. Piaget -- the essential building block for cognition. Biological maturation set the general limits within which cognitive development occurs but he emphasizes the environment three common processes guide their interactions:
