PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pacifier, Jean Piaget, Color Vision
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The feeling that something is automatic and effortless can mask mental complexity. Perception: the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information about the objects, events, and spatial layout. Sensation: getting information from the external world from sensory receptors. Lacking in depth or constancy, permanence or identity. The sharpness of visual discrimination develops rapidly, approaching that of adults by age 8 months. Color vision is poor in months 1-3, highly saturated red. 2months and older = more adult-like color vision. Visual cliff: human infants avoid the visual cliff. How to tell where one object begins and another ends. Common motion: if things move together they are likely part of the same object. 4 month old infants perceive objects like adult. Love infant directed song more than infant directed speech. Mozart myth: no evidence that listening to classical music increases cognitive/academic achievement. In addition to perceiving things we just see or just feel, we must come to understand relationships between senses.
