Psychology 210 Assignment 2 - Jenna Johnston
Reflexes are uncontrolled responses an individual has. The purpose of these reflexes or adaptive reflexes are to help the baby survive such as sucking, if they didn’t know how to suck they wouldn’t be able to eat. Three possible outcomes of the reflexes you are born with are:
1. Some stay with you throughout your life such as, blinking
2. Some of them disappear throughout your life such as when you grow up you can control when you move and turn your head where as when you were a baby with this reflex you can’t control it.
3. Some of them you can keep throughout your life but you learn how to control them such as grasping and sucking.
2. One example of babies being born with certain perceptual abilities is looking, using the visual preference paradigm researchers found that the infants would look at the more complex pattern for longer than the more simple one. This experiment shows that babies are able to distinguish a difference between the two shapes shown.
An example for babies having to learn these abilities over a period of time is object tracking, they don’t have control in following an object with just their eyes so they have to move their head as well as their eyes to follow the object. Over time they learn to control their head and eyes and are able to move just one at a time to follow …show more content…
However, they have the ability to recognize words from other languages and if that language is available to them in their own environment then the baby will continue to learn that language. For example, Nativist vs Interactionist theories nativist believe you’re born with the language you just have to learn the letters and sounds of the language. For interactionist it is when you have to be exposed to the language. You need both to learn a language, you’re born with the ability to distinguish between languages and you need to be around the language in order to learn
Reflexes are uncontrolled responses an individual has. The purpose of these reflexes or adaptive reflexes are to help the baby survive such as sucking, if they didn’t know how to suck they wouldn’t be able to eat. Three possible outcomes of the reflexes you are born with are:
1. Some stay with you throughout your life such as, blinking
2. Some of them disappear throughout your life such as when you grow up you can control when you move and turn your head where as when you were a baby with this reflex you can’t control it.
3. Some of them you can keep throughout your life but you learn how to control them such as grasping and sucking.
2. One example of babies being born with certain perceptual abilities is looking, using the visual preference paradigm researchers found that the infants would look at the more complex pattern for longer than the more simple one. This experiment shows that babies are able to distinguish a difference between the two shapes shown.
An example for babies having to learn these abilities over a period of time is object tracking, they don’t have control in following an object with just their eyes so they have to move their head as well as their eyes to follow the object. Over time they learn to control their head and eyes and are able to move just one at a time to follow …show more content…
However, they have the ability to recognize words from other languages and if that language is available to them in their own environment then the baby will continue to learn that language. For example, Nativist vs Interactionist theories nativist believe you’re born with the language you just have to learn the letters and sounds of the language. For interactionist it is when you have to be exposed to the language. You need both to learn a language, you’re born with the ability to distinguish between languages and you need to be around the language in order to learn