L33 Psych 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Teddy Bear, Color Constancy, Subjective Constancy
4 Mar 2019
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Complex and perceptual and attentional processes (continued: perceptual constancies: 4-5 months, size contancy: the realization that an object"s actual size remains the same despite changes in the size of its retinal image. Let an infant look at an unfamiliar teddy bear. Then show the same bear at a different distance, paired with a larger replica of the bear. If they lack size constancy the two bears will be equally novel. If they have size constancy first bear is familiar and the larger bear is novel: brightness and color constancy. If the pencil experiment has two different colored pencils, then the infant will believe that there are two pencils: shape constancy. Is there a novelty effect to the macaques in infants: results, with the human face across all ages, they look longer at the novel face, with the monkey face . 6-month olds show the same pattern as with the human face, looking longer at the novel monkey face.
