PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Nervous System, Dishabituation, Habituation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Motor skills, language, and cognitive learning are all discussed separately, but they actually work/grow together. They are learned in tandem by infants and each one affects the other. This is a theory put forwards by esther thelen called the dynamic systems theory. Central nervous system, personal goals, and environmental supports affect how/when each skill is learned. Integration: combining the individual motions into a sequence (think grabbing an item). Sensation is the sensory information picked up by our hands, tongue, eyes, nose, ears. Perception is how we organize and perceive that sensory information. Be(cid:272)ause i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t talk, (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed other (cid:449)ays to (cid:373)easure that they can sense something. Habituation: when an infant is presented with the same stimuli, they become used to it. At first they have a strong attentive response, and then as they are familiarized, they dishabituation (bored). Smell- prefer familiar odor, like pleasant smells. Taste- can distinguish sweet, sour, salty, bitter.