HDFS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lev Vygotsky, Operant Conditioning, Habituation
5 Mar 2019
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During the first year, infants pay attention to novel events. During toddlerhood, children become capable of intentional behavior and sustained attention improves. Infant"s memories increase dramatically during infancy and toddlerhood. Memories move from highly context dependent to increasingly context-free. Infants do not need to be physically active to acquire and retain new information. Infants can engage in recall by end of first year. Usually family members react positively when babies remember things (ex. Acting like a cat) and they will repeat them. By 6 months, infants can categorize based on two features (e. g. shape and color) Earliest categories are perceptual(because of senses, but by the second half of the first year, more conceptual and more categories (knows what it needs to go outside, knows what goes on the table) Ex. they might learn their head forward to have their mom put their hats on or put their legs up for shoes.
