PSY312H5 Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
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Intro: even in their first half year, infants connect sights and sounds in meaningful ways. Perceptual functioning reaches adultlike or near-adultlike levels remarkably rapidly: even newborns can see, hear, and integrate information from different sensory systems, and these abilities continue to develop rapidly during the first year. Perception and action are closely connected, and this connection is present from infancy. Perception provides children with information that they use to guide actions, and actions generate perceptual information for the developing child. Empiricist philosophers such as john locke and george berkely suggested that perceptual. Perception and human nature abilities are learned: infants might at first experience the world in terms of isolated lines and angles. William james hypothesize that infants experienced the world as a great blooming, buzzing confusion . Other theorist, such as j. j. and gibson, hypothesized that perceptual abilities that are essential to survival are built into the infant.
