PSYCH 350 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture I Weight II BMI III breast milk IV obesity V Locomotion VI Brain development Outline of Current Lecture i Visual Acuity ii Testing iii VEP iv Habituation Current Lecture preferential looking developed by Robert Fantz presented new born with two pictures they would look at one picture more than the other preference for one picture over the other picture look at babies face to see which picture they chose to look at longer babies looked at things that had higher visual complexity grating acuity no variability in contrast teller acuity cards testing a series of grating starts out wide and then the bars get closer together each grating the form of the VEP Habituation babies given repeated shakes of the rattle he baby eventually ignored the rattle or the stimulus show baby picture of brad pitt gets less interested as you continue to show the picture then show picture of someone else gets more interested saccaid rapid jumps in our eyessimilar in adults but they don t make as big of a jump babies have bad visual acuity they can looks at details These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute watched videos
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