PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mahatma Gandhi, Communicative Competence, Habituation
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Milestones-ages at which children should have developed social skills. Milestones-are guidelines, not all children will reach these skills by that age, most will but not all, farther away from the milestone the greater the concern. Can determine that infants habituate to the familiar stimuli. Recognize facial expression, even at birth can produce emotional expressions. Right from birth can produce happy, sad, surprised, angry, scared, disgust. Habituation not unique, facial expression are unique to human beings. Infant dependent on his or her environment to meet their needs. See voluntary smiles as a response to interaction. Increasing eye contact, by 6 months a lack of eye contact will be a sign of a psychopathology-autism. 4 months of age infants are described as hatching socially. Autism-not social, living in their own little world. Shows advances in cognitive understanding and communicative competence. 7mos adept of non verbal communication ex: pointing. By 9 months infants are aware of emotions.
