ACCT20200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Depth Perception, Cerebral Cortex, Color Vision
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Chapters 3 and 4: physical development in infancy and toddlerhood. Babies organize sounds into increasingly elaborate patterns. Infants have impressive statistical learning capacity: by analyzing speech stream for patterns, infants acquire stock of speech structures for which they will later learn meanings, long before they start to talk around age of 12 months. Example: when presented with controlled sequences of nonsense syllables, babies listen for statistical regularities, locate words by distinguishing syllables that often occur from those that seldom occur. Babies have powerful ability to extract patterns from complex: vision: continuous speech. Supported by rapid maturation of eye and visual centers in cerebral cortex. Supports motor development because when infants want to go grab something that they see, they have a goal to get it which promotes motor development. 6 7 months= depth perception: ability to judge distance of objects from one another & Used in early studies of depth perception.
