PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Period, Motor Learning, Deindividuation
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Face preferences at birth: preference for face-like stimuli. What makes a face attractive to a newborn: in preferential looking paradigms newborns prefer images that are top- heavy and have congruent shapes (have more features in the widest part of the shape) The other-race efect: the other-race effect: a tendency to more easily discriminate members of one"s own race, a test of the other-race effect in infants using a preferential looking task: The other-race effect has been shown for both caucasian and chinese babies. It is more difficult or impossible to detect among babies that are exposed to a diverse set of faces in their everyday life. Perceptual narrowing: faces: there is also perceptual narrowing for own-species faces, 6 month olds are equally good at discriminating human and monkey faces, 9 month olds are much better processing human than monkey faces. At 9 months they lose the monkey faces and can"t tell them apart.
