PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 3 Sensation And Perception Moodle
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6 month olds know the difference between 1 and 2, and 2 and 3. Start teaching them in 1st grade or earlier. But when can they do math in their heads. The person who said this was an empiricist, values what you learn from experience. He said babies when they"re born they have no experience. An infant"s world is one of blooming, buzzing, confusion. they can"t think because they haven"t had experience. Early psychologists couldn"t tell how well a baby sees or hears because they couldn"t express what they saw or heard. For a while they assumed they were blind and deaf. They came up with a new technique that relied on habituation. Habituation is the simplest form of learning there is. They tested how well a infant can hear using habituation through a pacifier. Give an infant a pacifier, they start suckling. If the infant stops suckling, it shows that the infant heard the sound.
