PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Small For Gestational Age, Mitosis, Umbilical Cord
23 Jun 2016
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Methods for studying prenatal learning and infant development. Decreased response to an increased (repeated/continued) stimulus indicates memory has formed (30 weeks) Basic assumption - if infants observe an event that violates something they know about the world, they will be surprised or at least interested ch. 5) Evidence: baillargeon --> object permanence (talked about more in o. Example of study: babies look at what"s relevant Measure of babies" looking time to see what they prefer. Newborn babies prefer mother"s voice over a strangers" voice. Results hr (heart rate) increased to mother and decreased to stranger. Newborn babies prefer "familiar" sound patterns at birth. Babies soon learned to increase their sucking pattern that enabled them to hear familiar story. Conclusion: babies suck things they like newborns preferred familiar story. Test: newborns presented with 2 pads on either side of head. One saturated in their own amniotic fluid and the other saturated in that of another baby.
