Lecture 8

Question 1

Spontaneous looking preferences

Answer 1

Infants - looking longer at one thing than another

Question 2

Visual evoked potential

Answer 2

measuring neural response to a visual stimulus

Question 3

Spatial frequency

Answer 3

number of cycles of the grating per visual angle

Question 4

Contrast sensitivity function

Answer 4

plot of contrast sensitivity versus spatial frequency

Question 5

Habituation method

Answer 5

infants are more likely to look at a novel stimulus

Question 6

Pictorial cues

Answer 6

overlap, perspective, gradients, familiar size

Question 7

Prosopagnosia

Answer 7

can identify objects, but not people; bilateral damage to the inferior temporal lobe, unilateral damage to right posterior parietal lobe

Question 8

Paired comparison method

Answer 8

stimulus presented during a familiarization period, during recognition period stimulus is paired with a novel stimulus, if infants look at novel longer they can discriminate between them