Ch 5 Flashcards
Who revealed for the first time the importance of early species-typical experience in the development of the visual system.?
Hubel and wiesel
What does perception allow us to do?
Allows us to behave sensibly in the world with respect to survival and reproductive interests
At what age does a baby have depth perception at? What was the first experiment to test depth perception? What is happening today?
The visual cliff was a carpet which looked like it ended on a cliff when really there was a glass covering the next area. The baby that would not venture past the visual cliff would be seeing as having depth perception.
Today heart rate and blank responses have been is to show depth perception that one month year old
What is a natural experiment?
An experiment where the groups already exist and you do not have to interact with them to study them.
What is the sleeper effect?
The sleeper effect is a developmental effect that is evident only sometime after exposure to particular environmental.
example - children born with cataracts in each Eye showed deficits in holistic face processing later in life.
What is synaptic pruning?
experience-based selective synaptic death
What are constancies?
The perception of like objects as like despite radically different projections on the retina.
What is intermodal perception?
Perception of two or more senses
What age do children get adult like color vision?
4 months
What senses are ready to go right when a baby is born?
Hearing touch smell and taste
What is instinct blindness?
The belief that our cognitive process feels automatic and that we can’t appreciate it’s complexity
