PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Good Music, Reinforcement, Crossmodal

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Early controversies about sensory and perceptual development. They recognize that the perceptual world of a human neonate is limited and both maturational processes and experience contribute to growth of perceptual awareness. 2 or + objects differ and can be discriminated (also called invariances or invariant features) Research methods used to study the infants sensory and perceptual experiences. The preference method: this method is a simple procedure in which at least two stimuli are presented simultaneously to see whether infants will attend more to one od them that the others. Determine if young infants could discriminated visual patterns. Ability to detect and discriminate patterns is innate. Short coming: if infant shows no preference to stimulus; not clear of she or he failed to discriminate them or found them equally interesting. The habituation method: process in which a repeated stimulus becomes so familiar that responses initially associated with no longer occur. Simple form of learning also known as familiarization novelty procedure.