PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Thumb, Handedness, Impulsivity
25 Mar 2016
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Chapter 7: early cognitive foundations: sensation, perception and learning. The means by which people receive, select, modify and organize simulaion from the world. Perceptual processes are closely linked to motor skills which are coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs. If a child constantly responds diferently to two simuli, the baby is disinguishing between them. Infants prefer novel simuli over familiar simuli when a novel simulus is presented, babies pay atenion but pay less atenion as it becomes more familiar habituaion. Babies have a keen sense of smell enjoy pleasant smells and do not enjoy unpleasant smells. They can also recognize familiar odours (i. e. mother"s milk) Have a high developed sense of taste can difereniate salty, sour, biter and sweet tastes but prefer sweet and dislike biter or sour tastes. They are sensiive to changes in the taste of breast milk that relect a mother"s diet will nurse more when mother consumes a sweet substance.
