PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Primitive Reflexes, Dishabituation, Habituation
4 Apr 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Infants high sensitive from early on to regularity with which one event follows another: available at birth & vital to language learning, goldilocks effect: focus on patterns that fit learning abilities, suggesting infants allocated. Infants prefer patterns with some variability over very simple patterns attention differently to different learning problems. Instrumental/operant conditioning: learning relation between behaviour & consequential results: positive reinforcement: reward that follows behaviour, increases likelihood of repetition. Observational learning/imitation: 6mos infant imitation quite robust not only imitate tongue protrusion but also attempt to poke tongue out to side when they see adult do it. Infants also analyze credibility of person & intention behind behaviour: will imitate what adult intended to do, not what they actually did, deferred imitation: ability to copy behaviour they witnessed earlier, indication of memory. Other measures of studying perception & cognition: reaching is an indication of interest toward certain perceived stimulus, heart rate looked at frequently because it indicates interest in stimuli.
