PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individualism, Attachment Disorder, Communicative Competence
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Birth - 2 months social cognitive development: right from the birth, infants habituate to the familiar, and they attend less and less to repeated stimuli and increase their attention when the stimulus changes to something new and different. Infants can differentiate among patterns, colour and consonants. Also, infants will recognize facial expression - this seems to be hardwired. Birth - 2 months emotional development: infants are dependent on the environment to meet his or her need - they give you sign, but you have to gure out what they want. 2 - 6 months: voluntary social smile, you see it also from birth, but at that time it is only hardwired, but at about 2 months it becomes voluntary. 2 - 6 months cognitive development: qualitative change, social referencing - understanding that there is some social world, which are the interactions with people.
