PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Depth Perception, Face Perception, Object Permanence

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 220
• Professor: Anne Merriwether

Document Summary

5 cognitive development in infants and toddlers. Direct methods can"t be used to assess infant learning and perception. Habituation: gradual reduction in strength of a response, due to repetitive stimulation. Recovery: a new stimulus causes responsiveness to return to a high level. Newborn babies can perceive depth but are not afraid of it (falling). Older babies can perceive depth but are afraid. Interposition (6 months): can"t see something behind another, so it must be farther away. Hard to tell at first, but over time they discriminate into meaningful patterns. Between 6 and 8 months, babies screen out sounds not used in native language. Statistical learning capacity: analyzing repeatedly occurring sequences of sounds. Adaptation: building schemes through direct interaction with the environment. Assimilation: interpret what we see based on what we know. Accommodation: encounter something in the environment and change according to that. Schemes (intuitive thinking patterns; ways to making sense of experience) Sensorimotor development (spans through the first two years)