PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sensory Neuron, Theory-Theory, Dishabituation
12 Dec 2014
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Sensation process by which sensory receptor neurons detect information and transmit it to the brain: first entry/stimulation to the body (ex. Theoretical issue question of how to explain perceptual development: enrichment theory theory specifying that we must add to sensory stimulation by drawing on stored knowledge in order to perceive a meaningful world. Brings cognition into what they took in using the information to analyze the environment more. Sensory stimulation is often fragmented or confusing: differentiation theory theory specifying that perception involves detecting distinctive features or cues that are contained in the sensory stimulation we receive. Everything the infant needs is already present in the environment, as the infant is getting older, they"re able to pick out the details to make finer distinctions. More about the ability to make out the distinction and pick out the details of the environment. Measured the length of time infant spent looking at each stimulus.
