PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Code-Switching, Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky
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Bilingualism: researchers have found that bilingualism does not interfere with performance in either language. The vocabulary size would not be affected if you are teaching children more than one language, they will slowly learn both. 12-18 month olds who watched baby einstein several times a week at home. Comprehension at six months of age, infants look to their mommy when they hear "mommy". Also, infants tend to look to the picture of feet when they hear. Parent"s eyes were covered, and the experimenter said to say to their child that look at the Tuesday, march 4, 2014 object and then observed whether the child look at it, over another one. There is increase in this ability with age. But anyway, there is evidence that children have some comprehension abilities around 6 months of age. This study could be also conducted with older children with complicated words. Founder of the eld of cognitive development is jean piaget (1896-1980): alfred.
