PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dishabituation, Depth Perception, Observational Learning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Changes or differences in psychological response: heart rate and eeg. Changes or differences in behavioral responses: visual tracking, high amplitude sucking. Can access stimuli by sucking at a particular rate; teach which sucking rate goes with which stimuli/object/choice. Habituation and dishabituation: repeat exposure, change stimuli, observe response. Change in response (dishabituation: infant noticed change, infant did not notice change. Babies preferred dr. seuss to unfamiliar rhyme as demonstrated by high- amplitude sucking: can remember things from when they are born, can learn a few days after being born. Can demonstrate learning through association: newborns can associate sounds with objects. Can demonstrate learning through consequences: newborns can learn to move mobiles etc. Can do simple observational learning: imitation, can learn from facial cues e. g. , detection of depth. The role of learning: don"t crawl, so depth perception is innate, crawl depending on mom"s facial expression, crawl when just learned to crawl, so not innate.