PSYCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toilet Training, Oral Stage, Libido
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Babies are uniquely prepared to hear and produce all sounds (150) of human language crucial for children to have an enriched and engaged social life if not learned by 5-7, probably cannot master language. The more a child is spoken to, the more vocabulary they pick up. Watching cartoons is not as important to development as talking to other people. As adults, we lose the ability to di erentiate sounds that are not part of our mother tongue. Babbling (repeating words/syllables over and over) preprogrammed and sounds the same all over the world. Babies can understand hundreds of words but can"t say any. Babies don"t yet have accommodation skills; don"t treat abstract concepts/pictures as the same as real world objects. By rehearsing phrases aloud, babies analyze their structure age 3: huge advances in speech complex sentences of 3-4 words can convey contents of imagination can create sentences never heard before.
