PSYC26 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Square Wave, Sultanate Of Ifat, Habituation
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Infancy period of life between birth and emergence of language (around 1. 5-2 years) How do they understand the world: within months, infant"s behaviour becomes organized. Applied concerns: need to respond to social, medical, and biological problems. The study of preterm infants premature children had a much greater chance of survival in 1950s due to new techniques - before this, most often children died. Nowadays it is much higher even around 24 weeks can survive. The impact of drug use on infants. Past 20-30 years huge increase in number of children born to mothers who have ingested drugs not a new problem but just recently studied. The study of infants: past, present, and future. Epistemology where does the knowledge come from: the empiricist argument - all knowledge comes through the senses. Ta(cid:271)ula rasa (cid:894)joh(cid:374) lo(cid:272)ke(cid:895) (cid:448)s. (cid:862)(cid:271)loo(cid:373)i(cid:374)g, (cid:271)uzzi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)fusio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)willia(cid:373) ja(cid:373)es(cid:895) I(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g, it all (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e: the nativist argument.
