PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Haptic Perception, Depth Perception
23 Nov 2016
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Sensation: the experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ. Perception: the interpretation of sensory stimulation based on experience. Attention: the selection of particular sensory input for perceptual and cognitive processing and the exclusion of competing input. Touch and pain, smell and taste, motion and balance. Newborns can feel pain, you can tell by type of cry aka heel prick angry cry. Haptic perception: the pereceptual experience that results from active exploration of objects by touch. Babies can smells odors, ex, turning their heads away from thigns that smell bad. The perceptual experience that results from motion of the body and the pull of gravity. Preference method: a research method for the study of visual ability in infancy. Two visual stimuli are presented simultaneously, and the amount of time the infant looks at each is measured. Visual acuity: the clarity with which visual imaged can be perceived.
