PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Interposition, Motor Skill, Parallax
1 Dec 2012
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Habituation when a novel stimulus is presented, babies pay much attention, but they pay less attention as it becomes for familiar: babies are interested in new/unfamiliar things. Sense of smell and taste are innate: babies have the ability to distinguish between 3 different tastes almost right away (bitter, sweet, sour; not salty, able to memorize smells (ex. the smell of their mother"s amniotic fluid) Infants like sweet tastes, and don"t like bitter or sour tastes. Auditory threshold the quietest sound that a person can hear: adults can hear better than infants (higher auditory threshold) Infants (7 month old) are able to use sound to locate objects: can distinguish between sound from 15 cm away compared to 60 cm away. Occlusion experiment infants group features together (believe they"re part of the same object) when they"re the same colour, have the same texture, and when their edges are aligned.
