HD FS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 18 Months, Habituation, Universal Grammar
13 Sep 2016
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How scientists know what babies know: habituation, novelty responsiveness, learning, imitation. 7 to 10 months infants construct relations among. They coordinate a face and voice as being from. 10 to 18 months infants accommodate to environmental stimuli the same source they attempt to see the outside world and whether milk leaks out. When a ball rolls under a sofa, for example a child will move around the sofa and anticipate the emergence of the ball. Habituation: the process in which a baby compares each new stimulus with a developing memory of the stimulus based on previous exposures, thus learning about the stimulus. Novelty responsiveness: following habituation, the process in which a baby looks more at a new stimulus than at a familiar one. Adaption: the process whereby knowledge is altered by experience. Adaption involves two complementary processes: assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation: the process by which information can be incorporated according to what the infant already knows.
