perception and action

Question 1

preferent,al looking

Answer 1

measures how long infant look to each side of the screen, if infant recognise the contrast, they look longer

Question 2

habituation paradigm

Answer 2

when seeing smt interesting look for a long time ( :want to gather interesting info) after a while looking time increase: bored

Question 3

eye tracking (precise. measurement)

Answer 3

see where exactly on a screen an infant is looking and for how long , creates heat map

Question 4

perceptual narrowing

Answer 4

infants are open to perceiving and narrowing a wide range of stimuli in early life
exposure to speciifc info, their ability to discriminate narrows
including, auditory perception, face perception, music perception etc…

Question 5

motor dev milestone

Answer 5

• self locomotion 8 m : infants begin to move themselves around in the environment. 13 m they’re walking
• reaching: first few months, infants engage in pre-reaching movement : swiping, swatting at objects

Question 6

role of motor learning on perception: visual cliff

Answer 6

first begin crawling: crawl right over the edge
over few weeks: response gets more accurate
finally they can tell if slope is safe for crawlng

Question 7

learning curves

Answer 7

4 learning curves: sit, crawl, cruise, walk
learning to perceive the relations between their bodies and the environment, discovering possibilities and where to stop for each stage

Question 8

role of reaching on social perception

Answer 8

after reaching experience babies look more at the face
w no reaching babies look at face and toy equally

-> after reaching babies attend to more social info (faces)

Question 9

culture

Answer 9

cultural practices lead to variations from the motor milestones
some culture accelerate motor dev (exercising, stretching) other cultures slow it down by constraining infants

mali mothers aid motor dev