PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7 PART 2: Visual Search, Ketoprofen, Crossmodal
10 Nov 2016
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Chapter 7: sensory and perceptual development part 2. Piaget argued that the sensory modes are largely separate at birth and that the baby integrates them only through experience. Gibsonians argued that some coordination of the senses is present from birth: exploratory intermodal relations. Newborns will turn their eyes and head toward a sound: thus the interrelation among sensory modes is detected through exploration of the event. Important form of exploratory relations among perceptual modes is the relation between vision and reaching. Infants reaching for an object see that they see illustrates how vision can trigger tactile exploration: exploration relation between vision and reaching may be sufficiently coordinated in newborns that they will work at keeping their hands in view. Relations among the sensory modes are present at birth because of prepared relations, which are relations for which the baby is predisposed by biology but that are modifiable by experience.
