PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Prenatal Development, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Noam Chomsky
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Infants display first smile at 4-6 weeks enhances powerful feelings of love between caregiver and child. Infants have innate repertoire of attachment behaviors that motivate adult attachment adaptive: desire to remain close to caregiver higher chance of survival through adult protection. * caregiver personality contributes to ( cause) child"s attachment style. Chemistry of attachment: oxytocin is related to infant/caregiver attachment, oxytocin promotes behaviours that ensure survival of young sucking mom"s nipple. Oxytocin, sends more milk to milk ducts for breast feeding: higher levels of oxytocin predictive of better maternal attachment. Infants respond more to objects with high-contrast patterns than to other stimuli: fox"s experiment to test if baby can use binocular disparity for depth perception, results showed that depth perception develops b/t 3 and 6 months. Auditory perception: by 6 months, babies have nearly adult levels of auditory function, also seem to have memory for sounds.
