PSYCH 1XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Catatonia, Retina, Hypervigilance
1 May 2014
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Measuring abilities in infants: habituation procedure determine whether an infant can detect the difference between two stimuli, habituate a decrease in the responsiveness to a stimulus following its repeated presentation, dishabituate an increase in responsiveness to a different stimulus, event related potentials a method of measuring brain activity evoked by the presentation of stimuli using eeg, high amplitude sucking method a method to asses what an infant likes and dislikes by taking advantage of the, preference method a method of measuring what an infant likes and dislikes; infant is put into a looking fact that infants can control their sucking behaviour to influence the presentation of a stimulus chamber to simultaneously look at two stimuli and the researcher observes whether the infant is directing more attention to one stimulus infants prefer looking at big patterns with black and white contrasts, faces.
