PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Pacifier, Stereoscopy, Binocular Disparity
Document Summary
Sensation and p erception sensation: physical aspect of sensations perception: interpretation of those sensations. Big question are babes experiencing things in the same way as adults? are the changes we see in early development based on maturation of the brain areas involved or because of environment. Empiricist v. nativist empericist: infants perceive differently; more poorly nativists: largely though maturation of brain areas; experience not as important. Vision vision is so critical, but it isnt easy to design. Visual acuity acuity=clarity of vision infants prefer stimuli with high contrast (preferential looking method=the farther you get away from stipes or the closer the stripes are together the baby will eventually see the stripes as gray=this is their acuity) 2 degrees of vision=newborn; how much they see, in focus, is a tumb width at 10 inces from their face vision isnt at fully adult levels until 3 years. Motion cues to object segregation whatever moves together is one object=common motion.
