PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Cerebral Cortex, Retina
27 Oct 2014
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Sensation information that is picked up by sensory receptors, eyes, ears, tongue. Hearing comes to us from pulsating waves of air. Vision rays of light collected by the pupils focused on the retina. Perceptions the way we interpret the sensations we hear, taste, feel. Sensations of newborns and how they change from infancy to young adulthood. Hearing mcfarlane unborn child responds to sound. He would insert a microphone into uterus and placed it near the fetus, and create a loud sound near the mothers" womb and found out that the fetus heart rate would increase. After birth babies tune into pattern rhythmic sounds. They prefer low frequencies instead of high frequency sounds. They show preference for one voice usually the mothers. If voice is too high it will distress the newborn, low frequency sounds are calming to the baby. Additionally they hear sound direction and will turn head towards the sound. Young infants can distinguish speech and sounds research shows.
