PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plantar Reflex, Moro Reflex, Harry Harlow
21 Apr 2013
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The picking up of sensory information by our sensory receptors (ears, skin, tongue, nostrils, eyes, muscles) Hearing: sensation as waves in pulsating air (collected by the outer ear and transmitted through the bone of the middle ear, to the cordclier nerve) Vision: sensation occurs as rays of light, collected by 2 pupils of the eye, rays of light are focused on the retina. How these physical events are going to be interpreted as musical sounds, human voice, noise. Procedure that proved the unborn child can respond to sound, even in prenatal environment. Before the fetus was born and after mother"s membranes had broken, a microphone was inserted into the uterus into the ears of the fetus, created a loud sound outside (in the abdomen) Sounds were picked up by the microphone, there"s increased of fetus"s heart rate (sound had be detected) Following birth immediately, baby tune into pattern rhythmic sounds (before birth, hear heart beats)
