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- developmental psychology 2 Today we learned baby's sensation and perception. First, we talked about five senses : vision, audition, smell, taste and touch. For vision, it is surprising that newborns are legally blind. For example, when they see at distance at 6m is roughly equivalent to the level of detail that an adult can see at 180m. Additionally, infants will gaze one thing and be difficult to move their gaze from that thing, which is called 'sticky fixation'. Infants born with immature visual function and they are maturing along their growth. For the audition, similar to vision, the finest sound they can hear is around four times louder than the finest sound that an adult can detect. Newborns also will orient their head towards the source of sounds like adult. Therefore, they have the ability to understand the multisensory events that stimulate more than one sensory system. The most interesting senses are the smell and taste. Newborns seem to have preference to sweetness because when they are fetus, they swallow the amniotic fluids which are sweet. Moreover, they prefer particular flavours of amniotic fluids which take on flavours from food eaten by mother. And this can translate into food preference once the child is born. In terms of touch, massage for infants can stimulate the release of hormones in the brain that regulate growth and metabolism. Why do humans have brain? Because we need to move and act on the environment. Like plants, they have no brain so they cannot move.January 27, 201500
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Today I went out to have lunch with my friends. We went to a Chinese restaurant and ordered 4 dishes.
However, I have a question about ordering : how to call someone to take an order? Calling "excuse me" or something else?
I am in the UK, can anyone can give me an answer?0 votedJanuary 27, 20150New course
Today we started a new course named developmental psychology. It is a really interesting one since it it related to our own development. At the first lecture, we learned how to test babies, which should be difficult because babies will not answer questions and it is not usually easy to control them. One of the experiments impressed me. The experimenter used fence to enclose an infant. Then he showed different things above the fence to attract the baby's attention. The result was that the baby showed more interest in human faces, staring at them for longer time.
We also talked about 'nature vs. nurture' debate. Some argued that humans were predisposed by genes and environment had no effect on humans. However, for the nurturists, they argued that humans were born like "a blank sheet" and all skills were learned from outside. We can say today of these opinions are naive and extreme. The most convincing idea is that there are predispositions for some skills (e.g. language) but only an appropriate environment can trigger them.
Psychology is exciting, isn't it?0 votedJanuary 27, 20150- New course Today we started a new course named developmental psychology. It is a really interesting one since it it related to our own development. At the first lecture, we learned how to test babies, which should be a difficulty because babies will not answer specific questions and they are seldom controlled. One of the experiment impressed me. The experimenter used fence to enclose a babe. Then he showed different things to grab the baby's attention above the fence. The result was that the baby showed more interests in human faces due to a longer time staring faces. We also talked about nature vs. nurture debate. Some argued that humans were predisposed by genes and environment had no effect on humans. However, for the nurturists, they argued that humans were born like "a blank sheet" and all skills were learned from outside. We can say both of two opinions are too naive and too extreme today. The most convincing idea is that there are predispositions for some skills (e.g. language) but only appropriate environment can trigger them. Psychology is exciting, isn't it?January 26, 201520
