Human Growth and Development-Chpt 5 Perceptual Devlopment

Perception is

• The way our brains give meaning to stimuli in the environment (sights, sounds, smells, etc.)

• learning behavior from experiences

• the manipulation of mental representations-mental activities

• the process through which children acquire the ability to process speech and communicate

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

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• the process of resistering stimuli and transmitting that info to cortical brain centers

• absolute threshold

• sensory systems coordinate and communicate with each other

• sensation

• the process of assigning meaning to a sensation

• Intermodal perception

• sensory perceptal experiences we have are associated in moemory

• perception

• the minimal intensity of a stimulus an observer can detect

• intermodal

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• anything that keeps a person from using one or more senses

• habituation

• a mechanism the brain "programs" itself to ignore certain stimuli after they have been introduced

• Depriving touch by caregivers in infants

• causes psychological and social development problems

• senstive period

• a time when certain experiences are ideal or necessary for develoopment.

• sensory deprivation

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• the edge of where one can't see anymore

• visual acuity

• visual cues to determin how far away objects are

• visual cliff

• After human faces, bright colors, contrasting patterns, and movement

• depth perception

• the ability to see fine details

• neonate preferences

• following a moving object with the eyes

• tracking

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NGSS.1-PS4-2

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• objects seem to appear the same size despite chnges in the distance

• perceptual constancy

• objects appear to stay the same brightness despite changes in the amount of light falling on them

• size constancy

• the hue of an object appears to stay te same despite changes in background lighting

• shape constancy

• objects appear to be the same shape despite changes in their orientation to the viewer

• brightness/lightness constancy

• stability of the shape, size, brightness and color of objects in our visual fields

• color constancy

Newborns and infants also have visual preferences for

• faces, things that have contour, contrast, complexity and movement

• flat surfaces

• things far awa;y

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• by 6 weeks, can smell defferenece of mother and stranger

• smell

• will scan the inside edges

• hearing in infants

• will scan the borders and edges of objects in a visual stimulus

• taste

• can discriminate between sounds

• selective looking of young infants

• infants have 5 basic tastes and prefer sweet

• selective looking of older infants

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• wrapping infants tightly in cloth for a soothing effect

• swaddling

• pain and temperatures

• touch

• best-developed sense at birth

• highly sensitive to

• improves infants development

• gentle massaging

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• how good your senses are at doing what they should do.

• attention

• attention

• vision acuity

• best from ages 8-18

• most significant perceptual challenge for children

• the process of focusing on particular aspects of the sensory world.

• hearing acuity

• best from 10-15 years

• sensory acuity

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Match the following items about perceptual development in adulthood

• build-up of pressure from excess flid inside the eyeball can lead to blindness

• glaucoma

• the lens of the eye can also develop deposits

• cataracts

• loss of hearing assiciated with aging

• absolute thresholds

• around 40's eye changes shape to refract light less that requires correction

• presbyopia

• Adults gradually lose some sensitivity for sights, sounds, flavors and odors

• presbycusis