PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subjective Constancy, Visual Cortex, Kipsigis People

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

Psyc 250 cognition, perception and motor development. Know the motor development milestones and how it is or is not shaped by experience. Ex. two objects cannot occupy the same space. Study: with experience, infants also learn under what conditions one object can support another. 3 months - baby is surprised if object is in midair, but any contact between box and platform, young infants do not react that it remains stationary. 5 months - type of contact (even if it"s on side midair) Object permanence - understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed mind infant fails to search for object b/c it has disappeared from infant"s: knowledge about the social world. Contingency detection and predictions based on maternal responsiveness. If stranger a has the same "style" as mother a high responsiveness, baby will like it. Infants preferred contingency style of mother (whether they were low responders or high responders)