Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Habituation, Observational Learning, Stereopsis
13 Feb 2012
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Infant sensory capabilities y hearing: young infants can hear very well; even newborns can discriminate sounds that differ in loudness, direction, duration, and frequency. Infant perception in perspective--& a look ahead y although infancy is the period when most basic perceptual competencies emerge, much perceptual learning occurs later as children continue to explore objects in their environment and to detect distinctive (invariant) features. These finer perceptual discriminations underlie many new competencies, including children s readiness to read y cultural influences affect perceptual capabilities. Some of these influences involve losing the ability to attend to and detect sensory input that has little sociocultural significance. Influences may involve losing the ability to detect sensory input that has little sociocultural significance. Factors that influence the effectiveness of punishment include its timing, intensity, consistency, and underlying rationale, and the relationship between the subject and the punitive agent.
