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PS51005B: Psychology of the Person – Week 3 Lecture Notes: Early Perceptual Development (Goldsmiths BSc Psychology)

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These notes cover Week 3 of PS51005B: The Psychology of the Person, focusing on infant perceptual development. The lecture, delivered by Prof. Yulia Kovas, explores how newborns perceive and interact with the world around them, and the methods psychologists use to study these processes. Topics covered: • Theoretical approaches: Nativist, Empiricist, and Constructivist views • Experimental techniques: Preference paradigm, habituation, eye tracking, high-amplitude sucking, and more • Empirical findings on: • Visual and face perception • Object unity and depth perception • Speech perception and perceptual narrowing • Number sense in humans and animals • Key studies by Fantz, Piaget, Gibson & Walk, DeCasper, Spence, and others • Multiple choice exam-style questions with answers

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Early Perceptual Development

Session Aims
Understand key theories of early perceptual abilities
Explore research methods used in infant studies
Review landmark studies on vision, sound, and cognition in infancy



Key Theoretical Approaches

Nativist

Abilities are innate, present from birth
Thinkers: Descartes (1638), Kant (1781)

Empiricist

Knowledge comes from experience
John Locke (1690): “Tabula Rasa” (blank slate)
William James: Infants’ world is a “blooming buzzing confusion”

Constructivist

Knowledge is constructed through interaction with the world
Piaget: “Continuous creativity through experience”



Empirical Evidence

Infants are born with many perceptual abilities
Development is also shaped by interaction and experience
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