PSYC 3P60 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dishabituation, Habituation, Externality
19 Jan 2016
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Visual preference paradigm: observing the amount of time infants spend looking at different visual stimuli to determine which one they prefer, which indicates an ability to discriminate between stimuli. Habituation: the decrease in response as a result of repeated presentation of a stimulus. Dishabituation: following habituation, when a new stimulus is presented that increases the level of responding. Convergence: both eyes looking at the same object (ability not possessed by newborns) Coordination: both eyes following a moving stimulus in a coordinated fashion. Externality effect: displayed by infants at 1 month of age; they direct their attention primarily to the outside of a figure and spend little time inspecting internal features. Schemas: sensory representations; representation of an event that preserves the temporal and spatial arrangement of its distinctive elements without necessarily being isomorphic with the event. Other race effect: infants develop an increasing ability to discriminate between faces of their own race relative to those of other races.
