CPSY 4343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant, 18 Months, Logarithmic Scale
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Face processing- infants how a preference for face-like stimuli as early as 5 days of age: by 3 months of age can discriminate the internal features of faces. All of the preferences infants show at birth imply memory: tastes, smells, sounds, stories, voices, etc. Habitation implies recognition: evidence of category differences around 7 months (cats vs. dogs) Infants begin taking less time to habituate to stimuli around 4 months of age. Piaget on imitation (review: argues for the slow development of: Controversial work on imitation: meltzoff & moore, 1977: can neonates (birth-(cid:1006)8 days) really i(cid:373)itate (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le(cid:863) a(cid:272)ts, unclear how close repeating the act infants were, big deal (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it (cid:449)as opposite of piaget"s order, replication by jones (2007) Did infants produce the behavior significantly more often when it was modeled than when it was not modelled. O(cid:374)ly (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior: sayi(cid:374)g (cid:862)ahh(cid:863) (cid:373)et the (cid:272)riterio(cid:374) (cid:271)efore (cid:1005)(cid:1006) (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths of age.
