Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Speech Recognition, Categorical Perception, Crossmodal

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

After 12 hours of mother child exposure, children have a preference for their mothers face, recognize her on the border of hairline and forehead first months: infants gradually develop a well-organized perceptual prototype for human faces. 4 months: discriminate among some facial expressions, not reliably prefer one over the other. 5 - 7 months of age: infants notice the connection between emotional expressions in faces and voices end of their first year: prefer smiling faces to fearful or angry. Emotion perception infants cannot tell a difference of emotion until the. 3/4months, because their visual acuity and contrast sensitivity is low. Pattern perception: infants (7 months) as well as adults see a square (=subjective contour) Perceptual constancy: perception of objects as being of constant size, shape and color. Object segregation: telling where an object starts /ends. Common movement: infants use common movement (if two objects move together simultaneously) to be sure of oneness.