PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mary Ainsworth, Johns Hopkins University, Operant Conditioning

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

Document Summary

Measuring infant behaviour: changes or differences in physiological responses, changes or differences in behavioural responses, heart rate, eeg, visual tracking, high amplitude sucking, habituation procedures, preference methods, procedures for measuring infant behaviour. Infant is given special pacifier that responds to sucking rate: change in sucking rate be detected, can access stimuli by sucking at a particular rate. Habituation and dishabituation: habituate infant to stimuli, by repeat exposure, change stimuli, observe response, change in response. Yes: moms read dr. seuss prenatally, babies preferred the familiar rhyme store to unfamiliar rhyme as demonstrated by high amplitude sucking. A baby may fail a task not because s/he lacks the ability, but because s/he was unable to demonstrate ability: stepping reflex. Infants prefer: patterns, complex patterns, moms face. Vs other people: used to detect early learning. Importance of attachment: first between infant and caregiver, harlow"s monkey experiments.