PSYCH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Romanian Orphans, Dynamical System, American Babies
1 Apr 2016
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2/25/16 auditory perception: begins prenatally, recall: fetus can hear sounds while still in mothers womb. Music perception: changes in beat (newborns! But other benefits lower anxiety, increase happiness. Cross-modal perception (intermodal perception: in addition to perceiving this by senses must come to appreciate relationships between percepts. You have to learn the correspondence between touch and vision. The ability to recognize shape-invariants across modalities is innately available: a test. One month olds were allowed to mouth either a nubby or a smooth pacifier. Shown two pictures, one of a smooth object and one of a nubby object. The baby will look longer at the object that matches what is in their mouth (how the pacifier felt) Ability to detect correspondence between tactual and visual modality doesn"t need to be learned: hearing and perception. Two containers one with a large ball and one with a bunch of marbles, play them sounds, they look at the one that corresponds.
