PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Almost Surely, Lev Vygotsky, Play-Doh
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Researchers have found that bilingualism does not interfere with performance in either: vocabulary size, code switching: when you switch languages midsentence. Many studies suggest that children do not learn words from watching tv. American society of paediatricians advise no screen time for children under 2. Baby mozart has been sued for making false claims about the educational nature of their videos. Is there another way to examine comprehension in younger pre-verbal children: preferential looking: you present the object and contract the child"s eye. At 6 months of age, infants look to their mommy when they hear mommy and their. The experiments had the parents listening to headphone where they were labelling the objects for the child. They did this because they thought the children will perform better with their parents voice. Measure how much time the child would look at the two object, and how long looking at the object the mother says to look at.
