PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habituation
10 Jun 2016
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Low restraint children: difficulty self-regulating, eat marshmallow right away. High restraint children: easily self-regulate, don"t eat the marshmallow right away. High restraint children = superior working memory, higher sat scores. Low restraint children = increase drug use, divorce, bmi. Habituation: present infant with stimulus repeatedly until child no longer pays attention to stimulus (habituated, change orientation of stimulus reaction from infant means that infant can understand the difference between stimulus 1 and stimulus. Preference method: is a preference for faces innate, even within minutes of being born, babies still prefer a face-like image more than a non-face-like image. Marketing for superbaby toy products: biological exuberance, during first 3 years of life, there is a lot of brain activity, many connections made between synapses, believed that increasing brain stimulation would increase intelligence, critical periods a. Spawn of self-help books and media misrepresentation d. ii. Leaps in logic for practical application (believed it would help in utero) d. iii.
