Perceptual Development

In the past couple weeks of Psychology, we've been talking a lot about our senses and our sense of perception. The details of infant perception I feel we didn't cover too much, so I decided to do a little extra research. I knew that infants were born with very poor vision but I didn't realize how bad it really was. Infants are born with 20/120 to 20/400 vision which basically means that they perceive objects to be 6-20 times larger than they actually are. Also, if they were to look at an eye chart and try to distinguish which letters are which, they would only be able to distinguish the large "E" at the top of the chart. What I didn't know (or possibly pay enough attention to) is that infants are already born with developed senses of smelling and hearing. Infants are known to like familiar songs or tunes that their mothers sing to them prior to birth because the patterns of the tune are familiar to them. The more infants make contact with their mothers, the less they cry and the more relaxed they tend to be. Now whether we covered all this and I didn't pay enough attention, I don't know, however, it was great to have a recap of all of this as well as some possible other new information that I learned from this video!

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnKsLaFsGA