W2D2 Flashcards
Is the output of our senses alone enough to create an accurate perception of the world?
No.
What is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?
Perception.
What is instinct blindness?
The feeling that something is automatic and effortless can hide its mental complexity, like vision.
What is considered low-level perception?
Acuity, color, brightness.
What is considered mid-level perception?
Pattern, depth, objects
What is considered high-level perception?
Recognition, categorization, intermodal correspondence.
Who said “the baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion?”
William James
Who said “The [infant’s] world is a world
of pictures, lacking in depth
or constancy,
permanence or identity
which disappear or reappear
capriciously?”
Jean Piaget
In the visual acuity test, at each age you find smallest width at which infants show a ________ for stripes over gray.
preference
What do they measure in the brain methods test of visual acuity?
Degree of electrical activity evoked by different displays.
What method did they use to test if babies were color blind? Habituation or preferential learning?
Habituation.
At what point does color vision become adult like in infants?
3 months
What did the study with the visual cliff for goats show?
That baby goats perceive visual depth.
At what age do babies perceive the visual cliff?
6 months.
What did they learn from the cat carousel experiment?
Cats need to experience the link between what they do and what they see, to learn to avoid the visual cliff.
Is depth perception innate?
It’s genes and experience together. So yes and no.
What happens if you put a crawling infant on the visual cliff?
Their heart rate increases.
Is there any evidence that listening to classical music increases cognitive/academic achievement?
Nope!
What were the results of the intermodal perception task?
Babies at 3 months old expect different sounds to come from different cylinders.
How did they test the intermodal relationship between touch and vision?
The babies would have either a bumpy or smooth pacifier. They’d have to match it with a visual of either a bumpy or smooth pacifier?
What were the results of the intermodal touch and vision test?
They’d match what they feel at one month of age.
What would happen if babies moved in-sync with the beat?
They’d smile more.
