PSY 2105 Lecture 2: Infancy- The Capabilities of Infants

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Alastair Younger

Document Summary

Infancy: the capabilities of infants: condon and sandler took 2 day old neonates and presented them with a number of different types of sounds, including tapping noises, vowel sounds and they included natural speech. Found they responded differently to speech, regardless of language, than the other sounds. When they heard speech, they became alert and when they slowed down the video recording of them, they found that the infants also coordinated their body movement to the rhythm of the speech vowel sounds. sounds. Orienting- habituating response: some babies of 2 days old can distinguish between. By the time they"re 2-3 months, they can even differentiate between similar consonant. They can even differentiate between adult music and lullabies. Can"t recognize their mother"s milk (2 days old) Taste: sucking rates: prefer sweet solutions; it"s built into us; but does it taste the same way to them as it does to us, bitter: disgust, rejection, spitting, preparatory vomiting.