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You are required to create 5 posts (at least 3 must be original, 2 may be comments on someone else's post) throughout the course. These posts can be based on any part of the class (lectures, class discussions, readings). Your posts will be evaluated based on how clearly they express your ideas and how well they demonstrate critical thinking. This is an opportunity to solidify your understanding of concepts and to connect what you are learning to other material and to your own experiences. This will make the course a lot more meaningful for you and will make studying for exams a lot easier. Have fun with it!
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1 comment:
After our last lecture and after reading "Infants' Physical World" by Renee' Baillargeon, my concept of infant perception has definitely changed. Very you infants can detect violations in occlusion, containment, and covering events. Additionally, it appears as though the earliest detections in perception are those in which allow for basic survival. In terms of visual perception, infants like complex stimuli, which may suggest that they are appearing for a complex world in which they must determine complex depths and boundaries of various objects. By paying more attention to complex stimuli at very young ages, infants may be training their brains for such a world. Also, as early as 3-days-old, an infants can detect their mothers' faces shown through preference of her face compared to others. This makes sense because infants must be able to keep track of who their caregivers and protectors are.
Infants' auditory percepts are even more developed at a young age than are their visual perceptions. This is mostly due to the fact that babies can hear while still in the mother's womb, which allows for early development of auditory parts of the brain. In fact, infants have auditory development that is almost equal to adults'. The fact that infants prefer speech to non-speech may suggest that we have innate perception of language even before we can fully understand it.
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