PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parallax, Heart Rate, Emotion Recognition
10 Nov 2016
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Sensation anything being sensed by sense organs. Things you can see, feel, taste, touch, hear. Perception interpretation of info received by sense organs. Ke(cid:455) (cid:271)attleg(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d fo(cid:396) (cid:374)ati(cid:448)is(cid:373) (cid:448)s. e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)i(cid:272)is(cid:373) (cid:862)de(cid:271)ate(cid:863: nativist arguments nature, empiricist arguments nurture. Habituation/dishabituation: when infants are looking at something and then it gets boring so they stop looking at it, show them a slightly different stimulus. If they show an interest, shows they are able to tell the difference between the two stimuli as they see it as a new stimulus rather than the same one: anything new or unexpected is cool. We will discuss 3/5 senses: vision, hearing, taste. Differentially developed at birth: survival value. Taste has to be developed by birth. Baby gets bitter food, spits it out: pre-natal experience. Ba(cid:271)(cid:455) does(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to use (cid:448)isio(cid:374) p(cid:396)e(cid:374)atall(cid:455: experience-expectant brain growth. Newborns born with 20/200 - 20/400: tracking. Knowing where certain sounds are coming from.
