PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Subjective Constancy, New Born, Retina
27 Mar 2017
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Psych 211: lecture 09, 02/02/2017: later in development some colour classifications are affected by culture. 3 month olds): subjective contour - square with 4 circles behind each corner so they look like pacman, habituate 4. Pacman to square: non-subjective contour flip the. Pacman around so part that square cut into is facing outwards @ 2 corners. Non-subjective contour with 2 pacman flipped out and then the other 2 are flipped out instead, they say. Hey that"s different but it"s nothing so crazy that they completely dishabituate. Because camera works like eye and the closer object is the bigger it seems: understanding of size constancy . Surprising development: u-shaped curve in development of face-tracking: new born really like to track face, Other things are just as entertaining as the face so tracking stops. 4 months on - 2-system view (very much core knowledge. If infants have attractiveness preferences than it would suggest that it is not just culture.
