PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cotton Pad, Smoking And Pregnancy, Howlong

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Mathieu Le Corre

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Taste: adult taste organized around 5 dimensions: bitter, sour, salty, sweet, umami. Taste in newborns: facial reactions to sweet, sour and bitter tastes in 2-hour olds. The experiment: participants: half neonates breastfed since birth; others bottle-fed, to test whether preference for familiar is learning during breastfeeding, stimuli, collect af at moment of delivery, freeze at -20oc. Taste & smell in newborns: taste lots in place at birth, by 2 hours of life, 3-5 basic tastes are discriminated, smell already memorable, some discrimination of smells, smell memories can be formed in the fetus. Is it because the way our auditory system is built? culture) 2 and 4 month olds prefer consonant music. 2 month olds listen to consonant 10-15 seconds longer. 4 month olds, preference = about 5 seconds: also babies more likely to be antsy during dissonant music, and more likely to vocalize during consonant music.