PSYCH 3GG3 : Perceptual Narrowing.one.pdf

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3GG3
• Professor: Mel Rutherford

Document Summary

Infants lose ability to discriminate between irrelevant categories. Better at discriminating, recognizing and remembering faces within our own race category. Only discriminate to the race of faces they have the most experience with. More specialized until you can"t discriminate irrelevant categories. Note: monkeys can be best at human discrimination if only shown human pictures. If infant has experience with monkey faces they can retain the ability to discriminate faces. 6 month olds are sent home with a story book. At 9 months, the infants who had experience with the monkey story book retained the ability to discriminate monkey faces. 6 month olds are sent home with a monkey story book. Monkeys are not individualize and just called monkeys. Infants who learned the individual monkey"s names maintained their ability. Specialization is important for individualizing members of a category that is important to you. Brief exposure to other race faces can reverse perceptual narrowing.